About the Authors
- Xavier Bosch-Capblanch
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* E-mail: x.bosch@unibas.ch
Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- John N. Lavis
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Affiliation McMaster Health Forum, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Simon Lewin
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Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, and Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
- Rifat Atun
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Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
- John-Arne Røttingen
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Affiliations Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, and Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Daniel Dröschel
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Lise Beck
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Edgardo Abalos
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Affiliation Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales, Rosario, Argentina
- Fadi El-Jardali
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Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, and McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Lucy Gilson
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Cape Town and Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Sandy Oliver
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Affiliation EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom
- Kaspar Wyss
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Peter Tugwell
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Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Regina Kulier
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Affiliation Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Tikki Pang
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Affiliation Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Andy Haines
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Affiliation Departments of Social and Environmental Health Research and of Nutrition and Public Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services received funds from the WHO for the contributions of DD, LB, SL, and XBC to developing a Handbook to produce health systems guidance, and some of this work is reported in this article. All other authors declare no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XBC. Performed the experiments: XBC. Analyzed the data: XBC. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: XBC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH.