Health in Nepal

Health care services in Nepal are provided by both public and private sectors and are generally regarded as failing to meet international standards.

current health care system in Nepal

1.Health care without particular system

2. Health care with particular system

1.Without particular system --> like traditional healer ,monks , dhami, jhakari, baidya,lama,priest ect

2.With particular system

a. Ayurvedic health care system

b. Homeopathic health care system

c.Allopathic health care system

d.Unani are health care disciplines with particular system

Currently health services is divided into four categories -->¹ promotive ² preventive ³ curative ⁴ Rehabilitative health care Health services

  • Human Development Index (HDI) value increased to 0.602 in 2019[1] from 0.291 in 1975.[2][3]
  • Mortality rate during childbirth deceased from 850 out of 100,000 mothers in 1990 to 186 out of 100,000 mothers in 2017.[4]
  • Mortality under the age of five decreased from 61.5 per 1,000 live births in 2005 to 32.2 per 1,000 live births in 2018.[4]
  • Infant mortality decreased from 97.70 in 1990 to 26.7 in 2017.[4]
  • Neonatal mortality decreased from 40.4 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2000 to 19.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2018.[4]
  • Child malnutrition: Stunting 37%, wasting 11%, and underweight 30% among children under the age of five.[5]
  • Life expectancy rose from 66 years in 2005 to 71.5 years in 2018.[6][7]

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[8] finds that Nepal is fulfilling 85.7% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.[9] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Nepal achieves 97.1% of what is expected based on its current income.[9] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 94.6% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.[9] Nepal falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 65.5% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.[9]

  1. ^ UNDP. "Human Development Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  2. ^ Nepal country profile Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (November 2005). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ "| Human Development Reports" (PDF). hdr.undp.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d "SDG Country Profiles". country-profiles.unstatshub.org. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Annual_Report_FY_2071_72" (PDF). dohs.gov.np. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Nepal: WHO Statistical Profile". who.int. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Gapminder Tools". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  9. ^ a b c d "Nepal - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.