From Rags to Riches: Assessing poverty and vulnerability in urban Nepal

BackgroundAnemia is estimated to cause 115,000 maternal deaths each year. In Nepal, 46% of pregnant women have anemia. As part of an integrated anemia-prevention ...

Absract Evaluations of health interventions are increasingly concerned with measuring or accounting for ‘context’. How to do this is still subject to debate and ...

Abstract City governments are well-positioned to effectively address urban health challenges in the context of rapid urbanization in Asia. They require good quality and ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the process by which microbes evolve mechanisms to survive the medicines designed to destroy them i.e. antimicrobials (AMs). Despite ...

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships between social determinants and disability status and access and use of sexual and reproductive health services ...

AbstractSerious games, conveying educational knowledge rather than merely entertainment, are a rapidly expanding research domain for cutting-edge educational technology. ...

Nepal is now a Federal Democratic Republic state after the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal in 2015.1 The country has three tires of government – one ...

Brief behavioural support can effectively help tuberculosis (TB) patients quit smoking and improve their outcomes. In collaboration with TB programmes in Bangladesh, ...

As societies urbanize, their populations have become increasingly dependent on the private sector for essential services. The way the private sector responds to health ...

Fragile and shock-prone settings (FASP) present a critical development challenge, eroding efforts to build healthy, sustainable and equitable societies. Power relations ...