NIRC – Who gets injured in Nepal, why, and what can be done? This study has now been completed
Nepal Injury Research Centre – reducing injuries through evidence – This study has been completed
CACH team: Julie Mytton, Puspa Raj Pant, Santosh Bhatta, Amrit Banstola, Emer Brangan, Toity Deave, Matthew Ellis, Pete Blair
The Nepal Injury Research Centre (NIRC) was a four year programme of research to build capacity and capability for injury prevention research in Nepal (2017-2021). We conducted a series of studies to understand the epidemiology of injuries in Nepal and to evaluate the sources of injury data available.
The study team in the UK collaborated with researchers at Kathmandu Medical College and an NGO, Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA). The research was funded through an NIHR Global Health Research Group award (Ref: 16/137/49).
Further information on our studies is available via the NIRC website and links to all publications are available through the NIHR award page.
Pant, P.R., Deave, T., Banstola, A., Bhatta, S., Joshi, E., Adhikari, D., Manandhar, S.R., Joshi, S. K., Mytton, J. (2020). “Home-related and work-related injuries in Makwanpur district, Nepal: a household survey”. Injury Prevention. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043986
Banstola, A., Kigozi, J., Barton, P., Mytton, J. (2020). “Economic Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Nepal.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(12), 4571. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124571
Pant, P.R., Banstola, A., Bhatta, S., Mytton, J.A., Acharya, D., Bhattarai, S. et al. (2020). “Burden of injuries in Nepal, 1990 2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017”. Injury Prevention 26:i57-i66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043309
Mytton, J.A., Bhatta, S., Thorne, M., Pant P. R. (2019). “Understanding the burden of injuries in Nepal: A systematic review of published studies”. Cogent Medicine 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2331205X.2019.1673654