Maternal Near Miss Analysis in Three Hospitals of Nepal: An Assessment Using Three Delays Model.

Background: Maternal Near Miss cases have similarities with those dying from such complications and so present an important opportunity to improve practice. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Maternal Near Miss events and identify the delays experienced.

Methods: This was a facility-based cross-sectional study conducted in three tertiary referral hospitals from three provinces of Nepal.

Who are dying and why? A case series study of maternal deaths in Nepal.

Objectives: To identify delays and associated factors for maternal deaths in Nepal.

Design: A cross-sectional case series study of maternal deaths. An integrated verbal and social autopsy tool was used to collect quantitative and qualitative information regarding three delays.

Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women's groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Background: Engaging citizens and communities to make services accountable is vital to achieving health development goals. Community participation in health management committees can increase public accountability of health services. We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial to test the impact of strengthened health management committees (HMCs) and community mobilisation through women's groups on institutional deliveries and deliveries by trained health workers in rural Nepal.

Sustainability of community-based women's groups: reflections from a participatory intervention for newborn and maternal health in Nepal.

Participatory community-based women's group interventions have been successful in improving maternal and newborn survival. In rural Makwanpur, Nepal, exposure to these Participatory Learning and Action groups resulted in a thirty-percent reduction in neonatal mortality rate and significantly fewer maternal deaths. It is often theorised that participatory approaches are more likely to be sustained than top-down approaches, but this is rarely evaluated after the withdrawal of external support.

The Estimated Prevalence of Autism in School-Aged Children Living in Rural Nepal Using a Population-Based Screening Tool.

Few data exist on the prevalence of autism in low-income countries. We translated, adapted and tested the acceptability of a Nepali-language version of a screening tool for autism (Autism Quotient-10). Using this tool, we estimated autism prevalence in 4098 rural Nepali children aged 9-13 years.