Assessing the health impacts of implementing a 'Comprehensive Rural Health Project' health system in a low-income region of rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT: Establishing and building grassroots, community-based healthcare systems is a key approach to improving healthcare access sustainably in low-income regions of the world. One prominent early example of this was the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), inspiring the framework for subsequent large-scale programs globally. However, many community health projects do not provide the same breadth of services as CRHP, which may have impacts on health outcomes. This qualitative study focused on 12 Dalit villages in rural Nepal following an intervention - known as the Village Alive Project (VAP) - to boost healthcare provision through a CRHP-style health system. Villagers' and health workers' impressions of changes in healthcare access were assessed through 42 semi-structured interviews. Thema

SUBMITTER: Barker F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12040125 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature