Background: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on the SDG aim of “leaving... Read More about Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
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Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (2018)
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Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or progress has falt... Read More about Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: Domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995–2015 (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Background: Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of health systems and to optimally deploy health resources.... Read More about Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: Domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995–2015.
Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016–40 (2018)
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Background: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing systems that provide prepaid pooled resources for key health services without placing undue financial stress on households. Understanding current and future trajectories... Read More about Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016–40.
Injuries in Nepal - A neglected public health burden and ways forward (2017)
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Editorial - no abstract
Impact of the roll out of comprehensive emergency obstetric care on institutional birth rate in rural Nepal (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Increasing institutional births rates and improving access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care are central strategies for reducing maternal and neonatal deaths globally. While some studies show women consider s... Read More about Impact of the roll out of comprehensive emergency obstetric care on institutional birth rate in rural Nepal.
Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A literature review (2016)
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify, critically appraise, summarize, and synthesize evidence from cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) of interventions aimed at preventing road traffic injuries (... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A literature review.
Diabetes prevention and management in South Asia (2016)
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Background: Globally, the number of people living with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has increased four-fold since 1980. South Asia houses one-fifth of the world’s population living with diabetes, and it was the 8th leading cause of deaths in 2013 for South... Read More about Diabetes prevention and management in South Asia.
Perceptions about the health impact of climate change in a rural Nepalese community: A cross-sectional study (2015)
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Background: The populations most vulnerable to climate change in Nepal are the poor living on the banks of rivers and in remote areas. Because rural communities closely observe local climatic patterns their perceptions of climate change and the assoc... Read More about Perceptions about the health impact of climate change in a rural Nepalese community: A cross-sectional study.
Knowledge related to climate change and willingness to act for adaptation and mitigation practices in rural Nepal (2013)
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This descriptive analysis sought to test Leiserowitz 2007 findings. Leiserowitz 2007 findings claimed that until people gained a general understanding of climate change or it was commonly discussed as a part of everyday discourse, people would percei... Read More about Knowledge related to climate change and willingness to act for adaptation and mitigation practices in rural Nepal.