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are also thankful to the Director, Health Services,
Uttarakhand for providing all logistic and administrative
support during the study. We also acknowledge the
effort of all field staff of IDSP (SSU, Uttarakhand) for
their help during the fieldwork.
Funding: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(Govt. of India), Delhi, India Competing interests:
None Ethical approval: Not required An authorship
statement: MS conceived the study, carried out
experiments, analyzed all data, and drafted the
manuscript. KK conceived the study, supervised the
study, analyzed data and revising the manuscript
critically for intellectual content. AKG contributed in
data collection, compilation, analysis and revising
manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
KK, AKG and MS are guarantors of the paper.
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