About the Authors

Uday Narayan Yadav

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

unyadav1@gmail.com, u.yadav@unsw.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, School of Population Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research, Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal, Torrens University, Sydney, Australia, School of Health Medical and Social Sciences, Central Queensland University, Sydney, Australia

Om Prakash Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

Devendra Raj Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Asian College for Advance Studies, Purbanchal University, Biratnagar, Nepal

Saruna Ghimire

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Gerontology and Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States of America

Binod Rayamajhee

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal

Sabuj Kanti Mistry

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Lal Bahadur Rawal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health Medical and Social Sciences, Central Queensland University, Sydney, Australia

ARM Mehrab Ali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aureolin Research, Consultancy and Expertise Development Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Man Kumar Tamang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Research, Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Suresh Mehta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.