Abstract Nepal's Primary Health Care (PHC) is aligned vertically with disease control
programs at the core and a vast network of community health workers at the periphery …

Purpose Understanding bottom-up approaches including local co** mechanisms,
recognizing them and strengthening community capacities is important in the process of …

Background Nepal has achieved a significant reduction of TB incidence over the past
decades. Nevertheless, TB patients continue to experience barriers in access, diagnosis …

The devastating 2015 earthquakes in Nepal highlighted the need for effective disaster risk
reduction (DRR) in mountains, which are inherently subject to hazards and increasingly …

Fast, accurate damage assessment of numerous buildings for large areas is vital for saving
lives, enhancing decision‐making, and expediting recovery, thereby increasing urban …

Background: Mass drug (antimalarial) administration (MDA) is currently under study in
Southeast Asia as part of a package of interventions referred to as targeted malaria …

Background Mass anti-malarial administration has been proposed as a key component of
the malaria elimination strategy in South East Asia. The success of this approach depends …

Background Leprosy remains a major stigmatizing condition. Stigma is a dynamic process
resulting from the interaction between physical attributes caused by leprosy and the existing …

Over the last 20 years, disaster events have been increasing with 3.25 billion people
affected. The public are not only affected by these incidents but also, they are the first on the …

Vulnerability refers to conditions which increase the susceptibility of a community to the
impact of hazards. This study applies the concept of vulnerability to a disaster fact in order to …