Construction and validation of the area level deprivation index for health research: A methodological study based on Nepal Demographic and Health Survey

• Ishor Sharma ,

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

  * E-mail: isharm9@uwo.ca

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3602-0284

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• M. Karen Campbell,

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Marnin J. Heisel,

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Yun-Hee Choi,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Isaac N. Luginaah,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Jason Mulimba Were,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Juan Camilo Vargas Gonzalez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1719-2200

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• Saverio Stranges

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Geography, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg

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