Bhimsen Devkota
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 693446 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bhimsen Devkota |
| NOMBRES | Bhimsen |
| APELLIDO | Devkota |
| FIRMA | DEVKOTA B |
| AFILIACIONES | Tribhuvan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7191-801X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A comparative study on the academic performance of left-behind and non-left behind children
This study explores the academic performance of left-behind children (LBC) and non-left-behind children (NLBC) along with their mutual comparison. Employing a cross-sectional survey method, data were gathered from grade five students of the Kaski District of Nepal through cluster sampling techniques encompassing all five local bodies as a cluster. The sample comprised 784 children representing 43 schools including 392 from LBC and an equal number…
From stigma to solutions
impose restrictive norms affecting women's daily lives. Chhaupadi is a tradition that involves isolating women and girls during menstruation and after childbirth, along with following other restrictions, which have physical and mental health implications. To date, interventions have yet to fully and sustainably address harms associated with chhaupadi across the country. This two-phase study conducted in Dailekh, Nepal facilitated the development …
Soins, coercition et genre dans la guerre révolutionnaire au Népal (1996-2006)
Cet article explore la question des soins et des violences de guerre liés au genre pendant l'insurrection maoïste et le conflit civil népalais (1996-2006). En s'appuyant sur des témoignages oraux et des archives, il montre que le rôle des femmes dans le soin a été transformé par la proximité des zones de combat et les exigences de la guerre subversive et de la dissimulation. Dans un conflit où l'accès aux soins s'est avéré être un enjeu stratégiq…
Developing a school-based nutrition education programme to transform the nutritional behaviours of basic-level schoolchildren
Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional behaviours in basic-level schoolchildren (Grades 1–8). This study followed PAR as the methodological approach,…
Adolescents’ understanding of the Nepalese version of HLS-CHILD-Q15
The development of the HLS-Child-Q22-NEP is a significant step in addressing Nepali adolescents' lack of health literacy measurement. Despite its generally positive reception, this study encountered challenges in comprehending the scale, prompting enhancements, and developing the HLS-Child-Q24-NEP. Further research, both qualitative and quantitative, is necessary to evaluate the validity and reliability of the modified items
Intimacy and the gendering of war healthcare
This article explores intimacy and gendered practices in insurgent warfare, with special reference to the conflict in Nepal between 1996 and 2006. Drawing on fieldwork, we argue that women’s experiences of and during the insurgency highlight how they engaged with bodily concerns and care, reproductive, and healing practices while serving revolutionary causes. By drawing attention to these particular issues, the article contends that most of the e…
Multilevel Interventions to Improve Adolescent Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
School gardening activities as contextual scaffolding for learning science
Literature on school education suggests that teaching and learning science in basic level community schools in Nepal is largely theoretical. Consequently, achievement levels and the understanding of concepts of science is much below policy expectations. This paper builds on a shift from dogmatic lecturing to activity-based pedagogy using school gardening as contextual scaffolding for learning science in community schools in central Nepal. Five fo…
Re-examining critiques of resilience policy
This paper examines three common critiques of 'resilience': (i) that it is a 'top-down' policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; (ii) that resilience policy represents a neoliberal shift towards the responsibilisation of communities and a retreat of the state from its role in providing protection; and (iii) that the focus on resilience tends to divert attention from the underlying causes of vulnerability. Using data co…
Choosing not to weaponize healthcare
Healthcare has often been 'weaponized' during armed conflicts, with parties to the conflict interfering with or violently attacking health facilities and personnel for their own strategic ends. In this exploratory study of the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006), by contrast, we look at a case in which both sides (with some exceptions) came to see it as in their interests to avoid targeting health facilities or deliberately disrupting healthcare deliv…
Use of information and communication technologies in the formal and informal health system responses to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly recognized for their potential contributions to health service delivery in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). As well as playing a role in improving the provision of health services under everyday 'normal' circumstances, ICTs can also be important in preparing for, mitigating, responding to and recovering from disasters. This research explores the use of ICTs in a natural di…
Rebel Health Services in South Asia
This is the first paper comparing Indian and Nepali Maoist rebels providing health services and health promotion to the communities under their influence. The paper presents the key provisions either made by rebel health workers themselves or by putting political pressure on government health workers to deliver better services in the areas controlled by rebels. The paper is based on a mixed-method approach comprising 15 interviews and a questionn…
Global health security
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security--its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern…
Demystifying the Maoist barefoot doctors of Nepal
Though not purposefully targeted, Nepal's decade-long violent conflict waged by the United Communist Party Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) has had considerable impact on the health of the population. Fairly early on the UCPN-M established its own primary health care services in the rural areas under its control. This questionnaire study included 197 Maoist health workers recruited from a wide range of backgrounds in terms of age, experience, gender, caste …
Understanding effects of armed conflict on health outcomes
The lessons learnt from Nepal could be replicable elsewhere in conflict and post-conflict environments. A nationwide large-scale empirical study is needed to further assess the determinants of Nepal's success in the health sector at a time the country experienced a decade of armed conflict
Rebel Health Services in South Asia
This is the first paper comparing Indian and Nepali Maoist rebels providing health services and health promotion to the communities under their influence. The paper presents the key provisions either made by rebel health workers themselves or by putting political pressure on government health workers to deliver better services in the areas controlled by rebels. The paper is based on a mixed-method approach comprising 15 interviews and a questionn…
Intimacy and the gendering of war healthcare
This article explores intimacy and gendered practices in insurgent warfare, with special reference to the conflict in Nepal between 1996 and 2006. Drawing on fieldwork, we argue that women’s experiences of and during the insurgency highlight how they engaged with bodily concerns and care, reproductive, and healing practices while serving revolutionary causes. By drawing attention to these particular issues, the article contends that most of the e…
Re-examining critiques of resilience policy
This paper examines three common critiques of 'resilience': (i) that it is a 'top-down' policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; (ii) that resilience policy represents a neoliberal shift towards the responsibilisation of communities and a retreat of the state from its role in providing protection; and (iii) that the focus on resilience tends to divert attention from the underlying causes of vulnerability. Using data co…
Demystifying the Maoist barefoot doctors of Nepal
Though not purposefully targeted, Nepal's decade-long violent conflict waged by the United Communist Party Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) has had considerable impact on the health of the population. Fairly early on the UCPN-M established its own primary health care services in the rural areas under its control. This questionnaire study included 197 Maoist health workers recruited from a wide range of backgrounds in terms of age, experience, gender, caste …
Understanding effects of armed conflict on health outcomes
The lessons learnt from Nepal could be replicable elsewhere in conflict and post-conflict environments. A nationwide large-scale empirical study is needed to further assess the determinants of Nepal's success in the health sector at a time the country experienced a decade of armed conflict
Global health security
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security--its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern…
Rebel Health Services in South Asia
This is the first paper comparing Indian and Nepali Maoist rebels providing health services and health promotion to the communities under their influence. The paper presents the key provisions either made by rebel health workers themselves or by putting political pressure on government health workers to deliver better services in the areas controlled by rebels. The paper is based on a mixed-method approach comprising 15 interviews and a questionn…
Use of information and communication technologies in the formal and informal health system responses to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly recognized for their potential contributions to health service delivery in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). As well as playing a role in improving the provision of health services under everyday 'normal' circumstances, ICTs can also be important in preparing for, mitigating, responding to and recovering from disasters. This research explores the use of ICTs in a natural di…
Choosing not to weaponize healthcare
Healthcare has often been 'weaponized' during armed conflicts, with parties to the conflict interfering with or violently attacking health facilities and personnel for their own strategic ends. In this exploratory study of the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006), by contrast, we look at a case in which both sides (with some exceptions) came to see it as in their interests to avoid targeting health facilities or deliberately disrupting healthcare deliv…
School gardening activities as contextual scaffolding for learning science
Literature on school education suggests that teaching and learning science in basic level community schools in Nepal is largely theoretical. Consequently, achievement levels and the understanding of concepts of science is much below policy expectations. This paper builds on a shift from dogmatic lecturing to activity-based pedagogy using school gardening as contextual scaffolding for learning science in community schools in central Nepal. Five fo…
Re-examining critiques of resilience policy
This paper examines three common critiques of 'resilience': (i) that it is a 'top-down' policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; (ii) that resilience policy represents a neoliberal shift towards the responsibilisation of communities and a retreat of the state from its role in providing protection; and (iii) that the focus on resilience tends to divert attention from the underlying causes of vulnerability. Using data co…
Multilevel Interventions to Improve Adolescent Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Developing a school-based nutrition education programme to transform the nutritional behaviours of basic-level schoolchildren
Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional behaviours in basic-level schoolchildren (Grades 1–8). This study followed PAR as the methodological approach,…
Adolescents’ understanding of the Nepalese version of HLS-CHILD-Q15
The development of the HLS-Child-Q22-NEP is a significant step in addressing Nepali adolescents' lack of health literacy measurement. Despite its generally positive reception, this study encountered challenges in comprehending the scale, prompting enhancements, and developing the HLS-Child-Q24-NEP. Further research, both qualitative and quantitative, is necessary to evaluate the validity and reliability of the modified items
Intimacy and the gendering of war healthcare
This article explores intimacy and gendered practices in insurgent warfare, with special reference to the conflict in Nepal between 1996 and 2006. Drawing on fieldwork, we argue that women’s experiences of and during the insurgency highlight how they engaged with bodily concerns and care, reproductive, and healing practices while serving revolutionary causes. By drawing attention to these particular issues, the article contends that most of the e…
A comparative study on the academic performance of left-behind and non-left behind children
This study explores the academic performance of left-behind children (LBC) and non-left-behind children (NLBC) along with their mutual comparison. Employing a cross-sectional survey method, data were gathered from grade five students of the Kaski District of Nepal through cluster sampling techniques encompassing all five local bodies as a cluster. The sample comprised 784 children representing 43 schools including 392 from LBC and an equal number…
From stigma to solutions
impose restrictive norms affecting women's daily lives. Chhaupadi is a tradition that involves isolating women and girls during menstruation and after childbirth, along with following other restrictions, which have physical and mental health implications. To date, interventions have yet to fully and sustainably address harms associated with chhaupadi across the country. This two-phase study conducted in Dailekh, Nepal facilitated the development …
Soins, coercition et genre dans la guerre révolutionnaire au Népal (1996-2006)
Cet article explore la question des soins et des violences de guerre liés au genre pendant l'insurrection maoïste et le conflit civil népalais (1996-2006). En s'appuyant sur des témoignages oraux et des archives, il montre que le rôle des femmes dans le soin a été transformé par la proximité des zones de combat et les exigences de la guerre subversive et de la dissimulation. Dans un conflit où l'accès aux soins s'est avéré être un enjeu stratégiq…
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