Public Health Standards in Nepal

Public Health Standards in Nepal
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Importance of Public Health in Nepal
Around forty-five percent of the population in Nepal belong to the marginalized communities where people live below the poverty line. Approximately fifty percent of their children below three-years-old are prone to stunted growth. Moreover, Nepal has high susceptibility for natural disasters like earthquakes and flash floods CITATION Wornd1 \l 1033 (World Health Organization, n.d.).
These factors are vital in the formulation of health preparedness and extenuation. However, statistics have shown that there is no hospital in their country that is designed to accommodate resistance to the abovementioned calamities CITATION Wornd1 \l 1033 (World Health Organization, n.d.).
Additionally, the armed Maoist insurgency which started in 1996 has affected the system of the whole country, resulting in more than twelve thousand fatalities. This also led to the displacement of around 100,000-200,000 citizens, thereby increasing the difficulty of healthcare access. Casualties are also evident during the unilateral insurgency ceasefire in January 2006 in the rural areas. Thus, affecting the number of doctors in these communities CITATION Wornd1 \l 1033 (World Health Organization, n.d.).
Impact of the Public Health Issues in Nepal
The factors mentioned above resulted in the ratio of one doctor per 18, 000 people in the country secondary to the health structural problems, deficient management, and the problems in the supply chain. Due to these factors, only twenty-seven percent of the population receives proper sanitation and only thirty percent have access to safe drinking water. The majority of mortalities and morbidities are attributed to the diseases of the gastrointestinal tract such as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid fever CITATION Wornd1 \l 1033 (World Health Organization, n.d.)
Health Actions
The World Health Organization, in coordination with the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal, evaluated the public health needs and devised a plan to alleviate the health issues. Health ga...