About the Authors

Tulsi Ram Bhandari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal

Bhushan Khatiwada

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhushan Khatiwada, Bibika Rajbhandari

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

Affiliations Torrens University, Pyrmont Campus, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal

Bibika Rajbhandari

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhushan Khatiwada, Bibika Rajbhandari

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

Affiliations Torrens University, Pyrmont Campus, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal

Amy Bestman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Sabuj Kanti Mistry

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Binod Rayamajhee

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Lal B. Rawal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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

uday.yadav@anu.edu.au, unyadav1@gmail.com

Affiliations Torrens University, Pyrmont Campus, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.