Understanding challenges and enhancing the competency of healthcare providers for disability inclusive sexual and reproductive health services in rural Nepal
To address the existing challenges for disability inclusive health services, it is essential to strengthen the competency and agency of the healthcare providers, and improve the ecosystem of health institution. For this, it is important for health institutions to be disability inclusive, improved behavior and attitude of health care providers, enhanced clinical knowledge on disability management and procedural skills of healthcare providers. Additionally, improving interpersonal communication skills and decision-making autonomy of health care providers is important for disability inclusive SRH services.
Authors
- Amit Timilsina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-7835)
- Manasi Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-9601)
- Shiva Raj Adhikari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4642-8606)
- Sami Khanal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3875-4054)
- Pabitra Neupane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6659-0688)
- Anisha Shrestha
- Sulochana Devkota
Institutions
- Pokhara University (NP)
- Tribhuvan University (NP)
- Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (NP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-12-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311944
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.58