About the Authors

Bihungum Bista

Contributed equally to this work with: Bihungum Bista, Meghnath Dhimal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Meghnath Dhimal

Contributed equally to this work with: Bihungum Bista, Meghnath Dhimal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

meghdhimal@gmail.com

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Saroj Bhattarai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tamanna Neupane

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Yvonne Yiru Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Achyut Raj Pandey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nick Townsend

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Pradip Gyanwali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Anjani Kumar Jha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nepal Health Research Council, Ramshah Path, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.