Health System Preparedness for COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Frontline Health-Care Workers in Nepal: A Qualitative Study Among Frontline Health-Care Workers and Policy-Makers
Author(s) -
Nipun Shrestha,
Shiva Raj Mishra,
Saruna Ghimire,
Bishal Gyawali,
Sujan Babu Marahatta,
Smriti Maskey,
Sushila Baral,
Nilima Shrestha,
Rakesh Kumar Yadav,
Sunil Pokharel,
Bipin Adhikari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.492
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1938-744X
pISSN - 1935-7893
DOI - 10.1017/dmp.2021.204
Subject(s) - preparedness , health care , personal protective equipment , medicine , government (linguistics) , qualitative research , nursing , pandemic , infection control , business , environmental health , covid-19 , economic growth , political science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social science , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology , law , economics
Rapidly growing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the health system in Nepal. The main objective of this study was to explore the health system preparedness for COVID-19 and its impacts on frontline health-care workers in Nepal.
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