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Senapati, Rojalin
Rout, Himanshu Sekhar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8445-340X
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Received: 11 May 2026
Accepted: 16 September 2026
First Online: 19 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The research was approved by the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) of the Department of Analytical & Applied Economics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. The study was performed in accordance with the principles stated in the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Number of Decision: ECO/205/2022. Date and place when Approval was issued: 27 June 2022 (Bhubaneswar). Informed consent was sought before conducting personal interviews with the sample households, with the confirmation of maintaining data confidentiality.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The corresponding author (Himanshu Sekhar Rout) declares that he is an Editorial Board Member of Discover Public Health. He also confirms that he was not involved in the handling or decision-making of his own submission. Rest of the authors declare no COI.
