About the Authors

Meghnath Dhimal

meghdhimal@gmail.com

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Khem Bahadur Karki

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Krishna Kumar Aryal

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Bimala Dhimal

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Hari Datt Joshi

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sajan Puri

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Achyut Raj Pandey

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Purushotam Dhakal

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Arun Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ganendra Bhakta Raya

Affiliation Siddhi Memorial Hospital, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Imran Ansari

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal

David A. Groneberg

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ruth Müller

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ulrich Kuch

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MD KBK KKA HDJ. Data curation: PD BD MD ARP. Formal analysis: BD ARP PD. Funding acquisition: MD KBK. Investigation: KBK MD DS GBR IA AKS. Methodology: KBK PD KKA MD. Project administration: MD KBK HDJ SP KKA DS GBR IA AKS. Resources: KBK MD. Software: PD BD ARP. Supervision: MD KBK. Validation: MD ARP. Visualization: MD AKS RM. Writing – original draft: MD BD. Writing – review & editing: MD KBK HDJ SP KKA DS GBR IA AKS RM DAG UK.