Bhim Shrestha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3805669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bhim Shrestha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bhim |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrestha |
| SIGNATURE | SHRESTHA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mother Infant Research Activities, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal
Participatory learning and action women's groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women's agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence fo…
Formative qualitative research to develop community-based interventions addressing low birth weight in the plains of Nepal
Objective To explore the factors affecting intra-household food allocation practices to inform the development of interventions to prevent low birth weight in rural plains of Nepal. Design Qualitative methodology using purposive sampling to explore the barriers and facilitating factors to improved maternal nutrition. Setting Rural Dhanusha District, Nepal. Subjects We purposively sampled twenty-five young daughters-in-law from marginalised groups…
Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal
Despite the rising popularity of indicators of women's empowerment in global development programmes, little work has been done on the validity of existing measures of such a complex concept. We present a mixed methods validation of the use of the Relative Autonomy Index for measuring Amartya Sen's notion of agency freedom in rural Nepal. Analysis of think-aloud interviews (n = 7) indicated adequate respondent understanding of questionnaire items,…
Development and validation of a photographic food atlas for portion size assessment in the southern plains of Nepal
Objective To develop and validate a photographic food atlas of common foods for dietary assessment in southern Nepal. Design We created a life-sized photographic atlas of forty locally prepared foods. Between March and June 2014, data collectors weighed portion sizes that respondents consumed during one mealtime and then a different data collector revisited the household the next day to record respondents’ estimations of their previous day’s inta…
Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings
Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal
Despite the rising popularity of indicators of women's empowerment in global development programmes, little work has been done on the validity of existing measures of such a complex concept. We present a mixed methods validation of the use of the Relative Autonomy Index for measuring Amartya Sen's notion of agency freedom in rural Nepal. Analysis of think-aloud interviews (n = 7) indicated adequate respondent understanding of questionnaire items,…
Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings
Development and validation of a photographic food atlas for portion size assessment in the southern plains of Nepal
Objective To develop and validate a photographic food atlas of common foods for dietary assessment in southern Nepal. Design We created a life-sized photographic atlas of forty locally prepared foods. Between March and June 2014, data collectors weighed portion sizes that respondents consumed during one mealtime and then a different data collector revisited the household the next day to record respondents’ estimations of their previous day’s inta…
Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal
Despite the rising popularity of indicators of women's empowerment in global development programmes, little work has been done on the validity of existing measures of such a complex concept. We present a mixed methods validation of the use of the Relative Autonomy Index for measuring Amartya Sen's notion of agency freedom in rural Nepal. Analysis of think-aloud interviews (n = 7) indicated adequate respondent understanding of questionnaire items,…
Formative qualitative research to develop community-based interventions addressing low birth weight in the plains of Nepal
Objective To explore the factors affecting intra-household food allocation practices to inform the development of interventions to prevent low birth weight in rural plains of Nepal. Design Qualitative methodology using purposive sampling to explore the barriers and facilitating factors to improved maternal nutrition. Setting Rural Dhanusha District, Nepal. Subjects We purposively sampled twenty-five young daughters-in-law from marginalised groups…
Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal
Participatory learning and action women's groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women's agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence fo…
Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works)