Health system barriers influencing perinatal survival in mountain villages of Nepal: implications for future policies and practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This paper aims to examine the health care contexts shaping perinatal survival in remote mountain villages of Nepal. Health care is provided through health services to a primary health care level-comprising district hospital, village health facilities and community-based health services. The paper discusses the implications for future policies and practice to improve health access and outcomes related to perinatal health. The study was conducted in two remote mountain villages in one of the most remote and disadvantaged mountain districts of Nepal. The district is reported to rank as the country's lowest on the Human Development Index and to have the worst child survival rates. The two villages provided a diversity of socio-cultural and health service contexts within a h

SUBMITTER: Paudel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034263 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature