http://blog.nyayahealth.org Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/11/picofwk34/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/11/picofwk34/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:00:41 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4126 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/11/picofwk34/feed/ 0 Posted by Tess Panizales ————- Tess Panizales is the Quality Program Manager of the Department of Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:32 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3975 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru A five-year-old boy presented with five days of dark-colored urine, swelling around his eyelids, and a recent rash over his left lower leg that itself had started over three weeks ago.  He lived relatively closer than many patients, a one and a half hour walk from Bayalpata.  He was brought in [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:00:08 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4097 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru There is a new HIV diagnosis in the outpatient department for a man whose wife is dead, an infant in respiratory distress in the emergency department, an inpatient unit whose patients seem to be bathing in flies.  Another child in the emergency department fell on her elbow from a few feet [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:00:50 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3987 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru This week, a 70-year-old woman with emphysema and heart failure was admitted to Bayalpata Hospital with shortness of breath and limited ability to walk, likely related to heart failure.  She had murmurs indicative of aortic and tricuspid valve insufficiency.  Based on an echocardiogram (ultrasound) performed by our Health Assistant Uday Kshatriya [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:45 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3923 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/feed/ 0 Posted by Jesse Brady     ————-   Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University.   Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:00:21 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3845 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/feed/ 0 Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s community health worker (CHW) program has grown extensively in its first 18 months. Covering an area of more than 20,000 people, throughout six of the area’s villages, Nyaya is now working with nearly 100 CHWs, who are all locally-employed women from the villages that they serve. Recently, Nyaya has been [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:00:11 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3838 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:27 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3744 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/feed/ 0 Posted by Agya Poudyal   [Below is  the Community Health Worker (CHW) update from Bayalpata Hospital for the month of Bhadra, as well as a story relating the experiences of CHWs in the field.]   1. Community Health Worker (CHW) Data for the Month of Bhadra: Three new categories have been introduced in this month’s table: [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:10 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3692 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/19/picofwk22/feed/ 0 Posted by Jesse Brady ————-   Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:21 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3707 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/16/pih-pmg/feed/ 0 Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide.  This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/18/notesfrmachham/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/18/notesfrmachham/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:00:56 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3390 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/08/18/notesfrmachham/feed/ 1 Posted by Agya Poudyal Each week, over the Nyaya Health team list, both a hospital update and community health worker program update is sent for reflections.  Although there has only been one weekly update published in the past,  the blog team would like to increase the frequency of notes from Achham to inform readers about [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/07/01/picofthewk12/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/07/01/picofthewk12/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:05:45 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3227 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/07/01/picofthewk12/feed/ 0 Posted by Ranju Sharma —————— Ranju Sharma was previously the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She recently completed her BSc at Mount Holyoke and is currently a volunteer with Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/16/chwrenumeration/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/16/chwrenumeration/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 04:00:24 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3081 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/05/16/chwrenumeration/feed/ 2 Posted by Dan Schwarz Here at Bayalpata Hospital, we’ve recently had several visits from respected government and non-government officials / organizations who have questioned our policy of paying our community health workers (CHWs). In reflecting with them and in other conversations, I thought it might be appropriate to say a bit about our position on [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/04/10/chwfollowup/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/04/10/chwfollowup/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:00:50 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2900 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/04/10/chwfollowup/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru Since the initial days of Nyaya Health, we have struggled to identify a viable strategy for our community health worker program.  Despite a strong vision that community health workers are critical to our work, the program hobbled along for our first two years of existence.  During that time, we had four [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/13/th_poptech/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/13/th_poptech/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:00:54 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2312 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/12/13/th_poptech/feed/ 1 Posted by Ryan Schwarz Founder of Nyaya partner organization Tiyatien Health (TH), Raj Panjabi, recently presented TH’s work at the Pop!Tech conference. You can learn more about TH’s work in Liberia and their inspiring community health worker model here: Raj Panjabi: Post-Conflict Health from PopTech on Vimeo. ——————- Ryan Schwarz is the Director of Operations of Nyaya [...]