Morbidities, health problems, health care seeking and utilization behaviour among elderly residing on urban areas of eastern Nepal: A cross-sectional study

• Mukesh Poudel ,

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

  * E-mail: poudelmuk@gmail.com

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-4418

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• Asmita Ojha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Office, Nuwakot, Ministry of health, Bagmati Province, Hetauda, Nepal

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• Jeevan Thapa,

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5101-9460

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• Deepak Kumar Yadav,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Public Health & Community Medicine B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Ram Bilakshan Sah,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation School of Public Health & Community Medicine B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Avaniendra Chakravartty,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health & Community Medicine B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5097-2217

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• Anup Ghimire,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation School of Public Health & Community Medicine B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Golden Community, Lalitpur, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8614-1087

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