About the Authors

Shally Awasthi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shally07@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Naveen Kesarwani

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kesarwani, Raj Kumar Verma

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Raj Kumar Verma

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kesarwani, Raj Kumar Verma

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Girdhar Gopal Agarwal

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Luxmi Shanker Tewari

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ravi Krishna Mishra

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Lalji Shukla

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Arun Kumar Raut

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Shamim Ahmad Qazi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Samira Aboubaker

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Yasir Bin Nisar

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health and Aging, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Rajiv Bahl

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health and Aging, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Monika Agarwal

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.