RECPHEC

Health literacy, the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions is essential to promote healthy people and communities. There is an urgent need to address the gap between the health information currently available and use this information to make life-altering decisions. Different strategies are to be considered for policymakers, health care administrators, educators and health care and public health professionals. RECPHEC is providing health information by its Information & Documentation Unit.

On going activities:

Collection: 85 documents were collected on different subjects: traditional system of medicine, health policy, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health etc which are catalogued.

Services: Reference service, Referral service, Reprography service, Information searching in different databases, Bibliography, Clearing house, paper clippings

Paper clippings: The information from paper clippings are more demanded by users in different topics. Presently, the newspaper clippings are filed in different 45 main subjects and 60 sub subjects from 10 national newspapers.

Health Clearing House: RECPHEC has been facilitating to provide HIV/AIDS IEC materials through its Clearing House service since 1997, where 12 different organizations supply 44 different IEC materials. RECPHEC extended to health clearing house from HIV/AIDS. The transaction this year is NRs. 5,76,524. To share the information existence & its promotion/dissemination is extremely essential. Hence, website of Clearing House has been developed. The cover page, price, publisher, type and summary of IEC Materials will be available in the web page.