Demographic training: challenges and new approaches

Domestic violence has continued throughout history unreported and unchallenged. It has profound effect on women. After marriage, the greater risk of violence for women continues to be in their home where husband and family live together. Data on this issue is hard to come by as there are very few studies done on this subject. Information on women facing different types of domestic violence was collected for the first time in the 2011 Nepal DHS. Therefore, an attempt has been made to study domestic violence among ever married women in Nepal and associated factors. The Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS), 2011 which covered 3224 ever married women, those interviewed domestic violence modules. Background characteristics such as age, working status, marital status, number of living children, residence, region, education level of women, religion and wealth index are link to three different category of violence those are less severe violence, severe violence and sexual violence. Bivariate analysis is used to examine the variation of three category of violence by background characteristics. All the three category of violence are more among aged women. Further, the analysis shows that terai region women and Muslim women were more experienced all these three violence. Key words:Nepal, severe violence, sexual violence, DHS

Abstract
Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) implemented a birth preparedness program (2008-09) to save life especially among rural women due to delay in assessing delivery services. The guidelines recommend that families save money for emergencies, arrange transportation beforehand based on local conditions, identify persons who can and are eligible to donate blood if required, identify and contact health facilities and health workers who can provide services, and have a clean delivery kit handy. To assess birth preparedness and factor affecting to birth preparedness, a national embody Nepal demographic health survey (NDHS), 2011 has used. Initial analysis of women who had made specific preparations before delivery of the most recent birth in the past five years shows that, birth preparedness, such as saved money for delivery and transport arranged by 36 and 3 percent women respectively. Founded blood donor and contacted health worker were by less than 2 percent women. Further, food arranged, clothing and bought clean delivery kit by 44, 39 and 5 percent women respectively. Thirty five percent women were not prepared for delivery.

Key words: Birth preparedness, delivery, Nepal