Geographical Locations - Nepal

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 16,830
• CIA World Factbook - Nepal

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Nepal
  - WHO - Tobacco control: Country Profile: Nepal
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Nepal
• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO)
• UNDP - Nepal

Government

• Nepal Health Research Council

Non-Government

• Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN)
  "As a watch-dog in the field of child rights in the country, CWIN acts as a voice of children through lobbying, campaign and pressure to the government to protect and promote children's rights in the country, and to end all kinds of exploitation, abuse and discrimination against children"
• Educate The Children Foundation
  "A small, grassroots Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which conducts educational and community development projects in Nepal. These projects range from sponsorship of children in private schools in Kathmandu to an integrated rural development program incorporating literacy, women's development, and sustainable agriculture in two rural districts northwest of Kathmandu"
• Empower Nepal Foundation
  Will be guided by an elected and nominated board of directors representing individual and corporate sponsors, Nepali organisations, Peace Corps Volunteers, expatriate consultants, and public and private institutions with interest on Nepal in particular and the Himalayan region in general. Empower Nepal Foundation encourages equal opportunity of participation by Nepal lovers regardless of their national origin, cultural and religious heritage, political ideologies, professional background, color, age, gender, and social status. Empower Nepal plans to complete its initial organisation phase by 1997 and envisages to start making contributions to Nepal by 1998.
• Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO)
  "ENPHO is an autonomous, non-profit making research based service-oriented scientific non-governmental organization established in 1990. ENPHO envisages contributing in sustainable community development by combining research and action through the integrated programmes in the environment and public health areas. ENPHO is one of the first NGOs in Nepal with the facility of well-equipped laboratory for environmental monitoring and analysis. The vision of ENPHO is Development and Promotion of appropriate technologies and practices for creating Eco-societies."
• Himalayan Health Care, Inc.
  "A non-profit organization was established to address the health crisis in rural Nepal. The primary objectives of the organization are to provide immediate medical treatment to people living in remote mountain villages and to improve the general health conditions of the rural population of Nepal who do not have access to health care at times of critical need"
• Fred Hollows Foundation : Nepal
• HealthNet Nepal
• Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP)
  "A non-profit, non-governmental organisation, providing neutral, impartial, and independent information to travellers, to ensure the future ecological and cultural prosperity of Nepal through positive impact tourism and outreach project work"
• Nepal Forward Foundation
  "Provides volunteers and charitable assistance to support human rights, environmental health and sustainable development in Nepal"
• Kushudebu Public Health Mission Nepal (KPHMN)
  "KPHMN is a non-profit and non-government social organization, which was established in 2006. The purpose of the organization is to conduct various activities to assist the disadvantaged, orphaned and socially remote villages of the Solukhumbu District, Beni VDC (village development committee). This assistance helps over 3,370 people in Beni VDC, Solukhumbu. KPHMN operates from Junbesi situated in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal." Its aims and objectives are: "To improve the health of the orphaned, disadvantaged and remote villagers; To assist the rural health post in providing better health care; To conduct various programs to promote a better understanding and acceptance of good health practices; To educate through seminars, workshops and conferences so that there will be a reduction in premature death and preventable deaths; To co-ordinate and co-operate with local, national and international agencies; and To identify major issues in regard to health and hygiene and work to overcome these issues."

Academic Institutions

• Kathmandu University

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Arsenic contaminated ground water and rainwater harvesting as an alternative water resources [sic] to take a safe drinking water in Nepal
  Paper presented at the 2nd International RWHM Workshop, 11 September, 2006, Beijing. In Terai Nepal, arsenic contamination in tubewell water has been a public health problem. Almost half of Nepal’s total population is living in 20 Terai districts and 90% of them are relying on ground water as their major source of water for all domestic purposes including drinking. Tubewell water samples testing for arsenic in Terai Nepal has shown the area to be arsenic vulnerable, and surveys on arsenicosis cases in six arsenic contaminated Terai districts conducted in between 2001 to 2004 have identified many arsenicosis cases. In these districts, tubewells exceeding 0.05 mg/L of arsenic varied from 2.3% to 12.1%. The prevalence of arsenicosis was found on average 2.2%, which varied from 0.7% to 3.6%. Further, in community-based surveys, 100.0% and 98.6% tubewells (n = 140) had arsenic concentrations above WHO and Nepal Standard limits of 0.01 mg/L and 0.05 mg/L, respectively. Examination of arsenic-induced skin manifestations for 1,016 villagers revealed 15.1% as arsenicosis prevalence, with higher level in males (20.8%) than in females (8.8%). Most of the patients were identified in the early stages of the disease. They are expected to recover, if further exposure to arsenic is avoided by providing arsenic-safe drinking water. For prevention and reducing health damages, Nepal needs more arsenic mitigation programs. [author abstract]

Educational Resources

• Health policy debate in Nepal - "aims at serving as a common forum for those who wish to participate in health policy debate in Nepal"
• WWW Virtual Library: Nepal
• CDC - Travel Information : Indian Subcontinent
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Nepal
• The Nepal Digest Foundation - excellent information resource
• Nepal Homepage - rich resources
• Public Health Perspective (PHP) Online Newsletter - the first online public health newsletter of Nepal. It is a monthly newsletter that provides information about public health events, health policy, global health issues, and epidemiological investigations, among others. PHP has nine sections broken down as editorial, letters to the editor, national news, global health, featured articles, journal watch, WHO publications, advertisements (seminars, workshops, conferences, book releases etc.), and being healthy. It is envisaged that issues such as national and global health and health policy, disease outbreaks, epidemiological investigations and health interventions, medicines, laboratory sciences, the environment and health rights will be covered. PHP provides a forum for individuals to not only share information but also experiences, ideas, solutions, and success stories that can help with policy change, program planning, and future research. In addition, the newsletter aims to increase the professional development of public health students, as well as provide a platform for seasoned public health professionals to share their expertise. The PHP team believes that it will be a revolutionary newsletter in the field of public health in Nepal. PHP is entirely free.