Notice of Republication

This article [1] was republished on October 2, 2025, to address an issue identified post-publication and to make the following amendments:

• The article’s Data Availability statement is updated to: All data used in this study are publicly available and can be obtained upon request from the National Statistics office of the Government of Nepal (https://microdata.nsonepal.gov.np/index.php/home).
• The 5^th sentence of the ‘Data Source’ subsection of the Materials and method section is updated to: We used information from Sections 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the questionnaires in [40] that covered socio-demographic variables, the food and non-food consumption and healthcare OOP payments, and information on economic activities and occupations, respectively.

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