Utilising data from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey from 1996-2016 and some landmark verdicts of the Supreme Court on reproductive rights since the early 1990s, this article evaluates the pace of continuity and change in women’s health status, particularly of reproductive rights of women. Thus, this study aims to identify sociocultural factors that influence women’s health, particularly their reproductive health. Although in the last few decades, Nepal has made substantial achievements in reproductive health service delivery and reduction of childhood mortality, however, performance is rather slow in achieving nutritional and health seeking behaviour. for family planning services, elimination of harmful and discriminatory practices that influences on girls and women’s health adversely. The Supreme Court of Nepal through its series of verdicts has greatly contributed to safeguarding women’s reproductive health progressively, although the full implementation of these landmark verdicts has yet to be materialised. Key findings of this analysis show that health remains gendered in Nepal, from childhood. A major breakthrough could be possible only by removing the social determinants of women’s health.
In modern era, human resource is a crucial factor for economic development. Several studies reveal that rapid economic growth of developed countries has been linked with investment in human capital. Efficient and proper management of the workforce is an important factor in development of a country. The importance of human capital formation is now fully recognized because healthy and skilled people, along with physical capital, help in capital formation and raising economic growth. Therefore, large scale investment in human capital is required for the full and optimum use of natural resources. Improvement in the health of masses increases their productive capacity and leads to quantitative improvement in human capital. This paper examines the role of health facilities in human capital formation as well as in economic development. The current study analyzes the trends of current health expenditure as percent of GDP in India and China. An effort has been made to compare the impact of health expenditure on value added per worker in agriculture and its allied sectors in India and China by employing multiple regression model using data from 2000 to 2017. Findings reveal that independent variable (current health expenditure) explains the variation in dependent variable (value added per worker) to an extent of 37.9% and 56.9% in India and China, respectively.
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) is local knowledge of community that is being used from generation to generation by the members of that community for agriculture, food production, food preservation and health etc. ITKs are plentiful in rural community and these are easy and its application iseconomic. ITK is acquired by the local people through practice, informal experiment and understanding of local climatic conditions.By this background, present study was conducted in Ranga Reddy district with the objective to documentationof Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Reddypalem village of Kothur mandal in Ranga Reddy. Data was collected from farmers of Reddypalem village with the help of well structured questionnaire and group discussion. We documented many ITKs in Reddypalem village for example application of neem leaves for storing pulse grains and poultry and goat manure for improving soil fertility.
Afforestation of wasteland reclamation in Ganga-Yamuna doab are as irregular small patches. They occupy the Aligarh, Etah, Kanpur, Fatehpur, Allahabad district. Concentration of salts is a serious limitation in use of these lands. Ground water is close to surface of these salt affected lands so that the danger of desalinization always prevails.Owing to the unfavorable physical and chemical properties, the salt affected lands are not able to sustain satisfactory growth of agriculture crops unless suitable reclamation and management practices are adopted. Certain tree species are know to thrive well naturally under the adverse condition of salt affected lands and therefore at least some areas of salt affected lands can be put under tree growth. For achieving successful tree growth on these problematic soils it is of prime importance to grow salt tolerant species by using suitable techniques. The selected species for afforestation should inherently be capable of producing the prolific root system and should thrive well under conditions of dries climate with low moisture supply. The pressure of an in deviated thick kankar pan in the sub-soil at a shallow depth presents a serious physical hindrance to the root development of the trees, and they dye out when the roots struck the kankar pan.
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