Background: In Nepal, most of the medical doctors prefer to work in urban areas where they get more opportunities. Traditional healing practices play a strong role in maintaining psychological and physical well being of ...

Executive summary Introduction Exposure to pesticides has been growing as a major public health challenge in developing countries. Overuse and misuse of pesticides have several acute and chronic adverse health consequences. ...

Introduction: The performance of health workers plays a crucial role in the improvement of health outcomes, due to its impact on accessibility to health services and appropriateness of care provided to service users. ...

Background: The indigenous knowledge about the uses of plant resources is at the verge of extinct. It is scattered and is communicated by words of mouth. Moreover, this knowledge is limited to older people who are mostly ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : This study was carried out to determine HIV/STIs prevalence rates among both migrants and non-migrants males from four VDCs around the Sanfebagar valley of Achham district in far-western Nepal. The ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study was carried out to determine HIV/STI prevalence rates among both migrant and non-migrant males from two VDCs of Kailali district in far-western Nepal. It was further set up to measure the ...

Background: The health policy of 1991 of His Majesty's Government was responded well with large number of health training institutions established in the private sector and production of large number of health personnel ...

Background: Hyponatremia is common in neurosurgical population, prominently in patients with Sub- Arachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Two common etiologies, namely the Syndrome of Inappropriate ...