Background: The World Health Organization estimates that mental, neurological, and substance use disorders contribute 30% of the global burden of disease, half of which are estimated to occur by the age of 14. Problems ...

Introduction: Toxic wastes are produced by various activities and phenomena particularly in the industrial/commercial sector and the inventory/profile development of toxic wastes can be taken as an essential step towards ...

Background: A great wealth of literature generated in the field of health science at a considerable cost of time and energy is lying scattered almost unknown and unused. There is hardly any bibliographic control especially ...

Background: Until now, there is no growth standard for Nepalese school-aged children (5-19 years). Therefore, comparison of growth of Nepalese school-aged children with the international standard developed by the WHO is ...

Background: The government policy on health is favoring investment of private sectors in health services and the service of private sector is focused on high cost services. Also, the investment in these services is ...

Summary: Ministry of Health & Population (MoHP) initiatives to record and manage information in terms of health care finance, providers, and services gave rise to such milestones as the public expenditure review of the ...

The WHO defines health systems as “all the organizations, institutions, and resources that are devoted to producing health actions”. Health sector projects engage with all levels and elements of the health system and ...

Background: In Nepal, little is known about the psychosocial and mental health status of rural people and is a largely neglected because of social stigma, inadequate infrastructure resources including as personnel and ...