Navin Prasai

Efficacy is the ability of a given intervention to work under ideal conditions while effectiveness refers to how it works under ‘real-world’ conditions. Efficiency is the ability to work most economically.

The qualitative method is used to find out the reasons for respondents not using bed nets. Semi-structured interviews should be conducted and I prefer to go for focus group discussions to find out the factors affecting them not to use bed nets.

Hi everyone,
I am Navin and have worked both in clinical and health promotion. As m my previous work was focused more on clinical, I was familiar with some basic understandings in descriptive and Inferential statistics. I am confident that completing this course improves my knowledge in statistics and leverages my skills in health research.

I think young adults use more wearable Technology which can be a factor for an outcome that is contact pattern. So, the confounder is wearable technology as it is associated with the exposure, that is young adult and not an intermediate step between the exposure and outcome.

Case Fatality Rate
The case fatality rate is abbreviated as CFR. It interprets the severity of the disease and as it is the proportion, it is expressed in percentage.
The numerator is the number of deaths and the denominator is the number of disease cases multiplied by 100.

Due to the surge in COVID 19 cases ,many countries tried their best to mitigate cases with the help of different public health measures considering the Ethical principles.For example,while doing contact tracing people’s autonomy is considered if they don’t want to participate in the interviews .With the implementation of restrictions to…[Read more]

In Nepal, Government has been providing necessary and emergency healthcare by the primary healthcare centers,health posts with no cost.But due to lack of healthcare workforce, remote geographical locations ,infrastructure and technologies many people are out of reach of these services.To full-fill this gap many private hospitals are increasing…[Read more]

In my experience,most of the developing countries are still behind in the implementation of health informatics knowledge and skills among the workforce.In Nepal some of the private hospitals and few government sectors have introduced the health informatics in their Organizations.However, lot of challenges have been seen as most of the workforce…[Read more]

During the COVID -19 pandemic, data sharing plays a vital role in the enhancement of public health measures to vaccine development. As there is a lot of manpower, financial resources involved in the data collection, data sharing can mitigate these burdens. However, there are always concerns about data security, privacy, and confidentiality in…[Read more]

In my experience, the Implementation of EMR plays a vital role in the outcome of the patient’s health. It also makes the life of all employees easier as all data are assessed within different departments. However, it is not easy to start with the new technology. Some employees are excited to adopt the change management others don’t.
I agree with…[Read more]

As mentioned in the article there are different big health data challenges like missing Data, Privacy and Ethical Issues, and others. With the advancement of technologies in health sectors, there is a lot of progress going on and more to do to overcome the challenges.
Data are missing as clinicians don’t include them as they are of less importance…[Read more]

I agree with the recommendations from the journal regarding dealing with corruption. Leaders, policymakers are the most corrupted in regards to the developing nations. In my opinion, most of them are due to lack of education and few are under the influence of power, nepotism, and money. Many investigations are conducted against corruption but most…[Read more]

In my previous workplace, the government had implemented different strategies for the better outcome of health for the underprivileged population. Different stakeholders from the community also participated to aid the government in delivering the information in health promotion, vaccination. But due to the barriers in technologies and…[Read more]

In my view, the implementation of high availability technology in the hospital information system( HIS) will benefit a lot in the delivery of the hospital service in an efficient manner by mitigating IT disturbances, decreasing or omitting downtime. This leads to the better performance of the hospital, patients will have better health outcomes and…[Read more]

I had experienced admin staff trying to access the patient’s history portal and sharing the diagnosis with his colleagues. As we can see from the CIA Triad principle, this is the confidentiality breach by unauthorized disclosure of personal information. After this incident was reported, staff was given proper training, the disciplinary warning was…[Read more]

As classified in STEEP, the following challenges are expected by the Pandemic COVID 19;
Social- Due to the lockdown, social distancing, and restrictions on different sectors vulnerable people, children are mostly affected because of the Pandemic. Social gathering activities like wedding ceremonies, funerals, recreational activities are limited to…[Read more]

The presentation on Sexually transmitted Infection was clear and Objectives, Data Flow diagrams, Evaluation Indicators, and Legal Considerations were thoroughly explained. In the Stakeholders, from policymakers to General Public were included and the importance was highlighted which made the presentation more impressive.

The Hypertension Surveillance System presentation was simple to understand and covered the different phases of the Surveillance System. Case definition, Reporting mechanism, stakeholders, and the evaluation phases are well explained.