Financial burden of cancer in Nepal: Factors associated with annual cost and catastrophic health expenditure

• Pratik Khanal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: iampratikkhanal@gmail.com; pratik.khanal@uib.no

  Affiliation Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-5700

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• Kjell Arne Johansson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Achyut Raj Pandey,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Ravi Kant Mishra,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Nirmal Poudel,

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

  Affiliation Nepal Health Economics Association, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1611-1149

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• Sandipa Sharma,

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

  Affiliation Nepal Health Economics Association, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Biraj Man Karmacharya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Programs, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Shiva Raj Adhikari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nepal Health Economics Association, Kathmandu, Nepal, Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Krishna Kumar Aryal

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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