About the Authors

Rachana Manandhar Shrestha

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Moe Miyaguchi

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Akira Shibanuma

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Arun Khanal

Affiliation Tritunga Development Society (Tritunga Bikas Samaj), P. O. Box 8162, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal

Junko Yasuoka

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Masamine Jimba

mjimba@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RMS MM AS JY MJ. Formal analysis: RMS MM AS. Methodology: RMS MM AK. Resources: RMS MM AK MJ. Supervision: MJ. Writing – original draft: RMS. Writing – review & editing: RMS MM AS AK JY MJ.