Nourishing futures: Assessing nutritional health among children under-five years of age belonging to a particularly vulnerable tribal community in Southern India

• Sneha Deepak Mallya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sneha Deepak Mallya, Biju Soman

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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• Biju Soman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sneha Deepak Mallya, Biju Soman

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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• Srikanth Gouspure,

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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• Pavan Kumar Thatoju,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7157-9115

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• Dinesh M. Nayak,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal Campus), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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• Ashwini Kumar,

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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• Harpreet Kaur,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

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• Ranjitha S. Shetty

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

  * E-mail: ranjitha.shetty@manipal.edu

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3210-2293

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