Older people's challenges accessing health services in central Nepal: a qualitative study using the domain of access framework.

Background: Low- and middle-income countries face rapid population aging. However, the health system has remained largely unprepared to deliver health services to an aging population. As the population is rapidly aging in Nepal, their challenges and experience should be the focus for health care providers to address these issues.

Factors Associated with Utilization of Complete Postnatal Care Service in Baglung Municipality, Nepal.

Background: Postnatal period is six weeks after birth. It is critical but is the most neglected period. A large proportion of maternal and neonatal deaths occur during 48 hours following childbirth.

Factors Influencing Birth Preparedness in Rapti Municipality of Chitwan, Nepal.

Introduction: Birth preparedness is crucial for health quality of mother and newborn and acts as a strong contributor in mitigating maternal and newborn mortalities. Different factors are predicted to have an influence upon birth preparedness practice. This paper aims at exploring relationship between various factors and birth preparedness practice.

Barriers and facilitators to institutional delivery in rural areas of Chitwan district, Nepal: a qualitative study.

Background: Giving birth assisted by skilled care in a health facility plays a vital role in preventing maternal deaths. In Nepal, delivery services are free and a cash incentive is provided to women giving birth at a health facility. Nevertheless, about half of women still deliver at home.

Bypassing birthing centres for child birth: a community-based study in rural Chitwan Nepal.

Background: Child delivery in a health facility is important to reduce maternal mortality. Bypassing nearby birthing facility to deliver at a hospital is common in developing countries including Nepal. Very little is known about the extent and determinants of bypassing the birthing centres in Nepal.

Factors associated with neonatal deaths in Chitwan district of Nepal.

Background: Neonatal mortality has remained unchanged since 2006 in Nepal. Reducing neonatal mortality is indispensable to reduce child mortality. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors associated with neonatal mortality.

Factors affecting institutional delivery in rural Chitwan district of Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Health facility delivery is considered a critical strategy to improve maternal health. The Government of Nepal is promoting institutional delivery through different incentive programmes and the establishment of birthing centres. This study aimed to identify the socio-demographic, socio-cultural, and health service-related factors influencing institutional delivery uptake in rural areas of Chitwan district, where high rates of institutional deliveries co-exist with a significant proportion of home deliveries.

Field test results of the motherhood method to measure maternal mortality.

Background & Objectives: Measuring maternal mortality in developing countries poses a major challenge. In Nepal, vital registration is extremely deficient. Currently available methods to measure maternal mortality, such as the sisterhood method, pose problems with respect to validity, precision, cost and time.