Meghnath Dhimal

Dados Biográficos

ID1861747
NOMEMeghnath Dhimal
PRENOMESMeghnath
SOBRENOMEDhimal
ASSINATURADHIMAL M
AFILIAÇÕESNepal Health Research Council
ORCID0000-0001-7176-7821
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR9
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Female Community Health Volunteer-led intervention for hypertension prevention and control in rural Nepal

    Open AccessBihungum Bista, Sushmita Mali et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and premature mortality, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries such as Nepal, where awareness, treatment, and control remain low. Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) have been effective in maternal and child health programs and may support noncommunicable disease management. This hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation study evaluated the effectiveness and…

  • Implementing the World Health Organization - Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3

    Open AccessUpendra Bhojani, Ashish Kumar Pandey et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    India experiences a high degree of tobacco industry interference. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in its Article 5.3, requires members to protect their policies from tobacco industry influence. Despite the global guidance, the implementation of the Article 5.3 of the convention remains far from desired. We study implementation processes concerning the Article 5.3 policies in 17 of the 19 Indian states that h…

  • Stakeholders’ perspectives on the management and prevention of non-communicable diseases in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessElizabeth H Shayo, Peter M Karoli et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell disease, and rheumatic heart disease, pose significant health burdens in low-income countries, not the least rural Tanzania, exacerbated by limited healthcare infrastructure, human and financial resources. This paper reports the perspectives of key stakeholders on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges (SWOC) in managing and preventing non-communicable…

  • The prevalence and associated factors of uncontrolled blood pressure in a rural community of Nepal

    Open AccessBihungum Bista, Sushmita Mali et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Hypertension affects 1.28 billion adults globally, with two-thirds residing in low- and middle-income countries. In Nepal, about 60% of hypertensive individuals in urban settings have uncontrolled blood pressure, but the situation in rural settings is unknown. We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with uncontrolled blood pressure among individuals diagnosed with high blood pressure, in a rural community in Nepal.We conducted…

  • Focus on health-centred climate solutions

    Open AccessJianxiang Shen, Wenjia Cai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Climate change poses a public health crisis. To simultaneously achieve climate and health goals, the health-centred climate solutions are of great interest to policymakers. Here, we provide an overview of a unique set of 27 papers published in the focus collection on ‘health-centred climate solutions’. We also take stock of recent literature on the health impacts of climate change, the effectiveness of adaptation actions, and the health co-benefi…

  • Adverse Health Consequences of Poor Air Quality in Nepal

    Open AccessNabin Pathak, Shreya Dhungana et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2025

    Literatures shows that poor air quality index (AQI) is associated with several adverse health impacts, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, tuberculosis, cancer, pneumonia, cataracts, heart diseases, and mental health disorders. Nepal, one of the lower-middle-income countries, has become vulnerable to adverse health impacts due to poor AQI over time. The capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu, is frequently placed a…

  • Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMichael Brauer, Gregory A Roth et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…

  • Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100

    Open AccessNatalia V Bhattacharjee, Austin E Schumacher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAustin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021

    Open AccessJaimie D Steinmetz, Katrin Seeher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Neurology2024

    BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Data-driven nexus between malaria incidence and World Bank indicators in the Mekong River during 2000–2022

    Open AccessPhuong Hoang Ngoc Nguyen, Meghnath DhimalARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The increase in hydro dams in the Mekong River amidst the prevalence of multidrug-resistant malaria in Cambodia has raised concerns about global public health. Political conflicts during Covid-19 pandemic led cross-border movements of malaria cases from Myanmar and caused health care burden in Thailand. While previous publications used climatic indicators for predicting mosquito-borne diseases, this research used globally recognizable World Bank …

  • Predicting blood lead in Uruguayan children

    Open AccessSeth Frndak, Elena I Queirolo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Predicting childhood blood lead levels (BLLs) has had mixed success, and it is unclear if individual- or neighborhood-level variables are most predictive. An ensemble machine learning (ML) approach to identify the most relevant predictors of BLL ≥2μg/dL in urban children was implemented. A cross-sectional sample of 603 children (~7 years of age) recruited between 2009–2019 from Montevideo, Uruguay participated in the study. 77 individual- and 32 …

  • A prototype early warning system for diarrhoeal disease to combat health threats of climate change in the asia-pacific region

    Open AccessRaul Cruz-Cano, Hao He et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Ongoing climate variability and change are increasing the burden of diarrhoeal disease worldwide. Meaningful early warning systems with adequate lead times (weeks to months) are needed to guide public health decision–making and enhance community resilience against health threats posed by climate change. Toward this goal, we trained various machine-learning models to predict diarrhoeal disease rates in Nepal (2002–2014), Taiwan (2008–2019), and Vi…

  • Maternal and child health climate change adaptation

    Open AccessDinesh Bhandari, Eddie Robinson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Driven by the existential threats of climate change to planetary health, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established a mandate for National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to facilitate adaptation planning in low- and middle-income countries. However, the extent to which NAPs consider health risks, particularly those affecting maternal and child health in the adaptation planning process, remains unexplored. Employing th…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050

    Open AccessKanyin Liane Ong, Lauryn K Stafford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…

  • Assessment of Mongolian dietary intake for planetary and human health

    Open AccessDashzeveg Delgermaa, Delgermaa Dashzeveg et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Background Healthy diets that consider environmental pressures are required to meet sustainable development goals in Mongolia. This study aimed to clarify the extent of planetary and human health on Mongolian dietary intake. Methods The intake of eight food groups (g/day) was investigated using the national database of the Household socio-economic survey (HSES) 2019 in Mongolia. The boundary intake of the Planetary health diet (PHD) proposed by t…

  • The impact of hydropower dam construction on malaria incidence

    Open AccessIgor Cavallini Johansen, E F Moran et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    During the first two decades of the 21st century, Brazil carried out massive public investments on infrastructure projects, such as large hydropower dams, with potential impact on population health. Here we characterize local malaria transmission and its potential spread during the construction of three large hydropower dams in the Brazilian Amazon. We focus on Porto Velho (PVH), in Rondônia state, where the Santo Antônio and Jirau dams were buil…

  • Assessment of quality of essential medicines in public health care facilities of Nepal

    Open AccessNeelam Dhakal, Pradip Gyanwali et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Essential medicines are those medicines that satisfy the primary health care needs of the citizens. Poor quality of essential medicines can have serious impact on public health. Thus, this study is aimed to assess the quality of essential medicines available in public health care facilities of Nepal. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out in 62 health facilities across 21 districts, representing all seven provinces of Nepal and selec…

  • Partnership preferences, economic drivers, and health consequences of Gambian men’s interactions with foreign tourists

    Open AccessMatthew Quaife, Mareme Diallo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Gambia has a thriving tourist industry, but in recent decades has developed a reputation as a destination for older, female tourists to seek sexual relationships with young Gambian men. During partnerships or in return for sex, Gambian men may receive financial support or in some cases the opportunity to travel to Europe with a partner. There has been little previous research among these men on sexual risk behaviours, physical and mental heal…

  • Psycho-social factors associated with climate distress, hope and behavioural intentions in young UK residents

    Open AccessAns Vercammen, Tassia K Oswald et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Although the UK has been relatively spared significant geophysical impacts of climate change, many people, youth in particular, are increasingly worried about climate change. The psychological distress associated with the (perceived) threat of climate change has been linked to poorer mental wellbeing but can also promote adaptive responses such as engagement in pro-environmental behaviour. In this mixed methods study, we delve deeper into the exp…

  • The burden of mental disorders in Nepal between 1990 and 2019

    Open AccessRaja Ram Dhungana, Achyut Raj Pandey et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2023

    Mental disorders are the leading cause of disease burden, affecting 13% of all people globally in 2019. However, there is scarce evidence on the burden of mental disorders in Nepal. This study used the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 data to assess the prevalence and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of mental disorders in Nepal between 1990 and 2019. In 2019, there were 3.9 million (95% UI: 3.6-4.3) people with mental disorders in Nepal…

  • Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019

    Open AccessGlobal Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Jonathan Kocarnik et al.ARTICLEJAMA Oncology2022

    IMPORTANCE: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) provided systematic estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality to inform local and international efforts toward reducing cancer burden. OBJECTIVE: To estimate cancer burden and trends globally for 204 countries and territories and by Sociodemographic Index (SDI) quintiles from 2010 to 2019. EVIDENCE REVIEW: The GBD 2019 estimation methods were used t…

  • Exploring the challenges in the management of childhood pneumonia-qualitative findings from health care providers from two high prevalence states in India

    Open AccessRani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    India ranks among the top five countries in the world in child deaths due to pneumonia. Apart from poor public awareness, inadequate health infrastructure and treatment services have compromised effective management. This qualitative study guided by components of the Andersen-Newman’s health care utilization framework explored contextual and community challenges faced by health care providers (HCPs) in the delivery of care services for children w…