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Nepal: trying to reach out to the community

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Pramod M. Shyangwa  and
Arun Jha
Pramod M. Shyangwa
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, BPK Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal, email pshyangwa@yahoo.com
Arun Jha
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Section, Nepalese Doctors' Association; Logandene, Ashley Close, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP3 8BL, UK, email arun.jha@HPT.nhs.uk
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Sandwiched between India and China, Nepal is a small landlocked lower-middle-income country in South Asia. Once a peaceful country, it is striving to overcome the legacy of a 10-year Maoist rebellion, a royal massacre and continuing political chaos. Nepal has been in dispute with neighbouring Bhutan over the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of refugees in several camps in Nepal. In addition, the country experiences frequent natural disasters (floods and landslides) and faces several environmental challenges, including deforestation and a population explosion in southern Nepal.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 36 - 38
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