Transforming Nepal's primary health care delivery system in global health era: addressing historical and current implementation challenges.

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. Aligning with the globalization of health and the factors affecting global burden of diseases, Nepal echoes the progressive increase in life expectancy, changes in diseases patterns, including the current impact of COVID-19. Nepal's health system is also accommodating recent federalization, and thus it is critical to explore how the primary health care system is grappling the challenges amidst these changes. In this review, we conducted a narrative synthesis of literature to explore the challenges related to transformation of Nepal's primary health care delivery system to meet the demands incurred by impact of globalization and r

SUBMITTER: Adhikari B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature