About the Authors
- John N. Lavis
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* E-mail: lavisj@mcmaster.ca
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
- John-Arne Røttingen
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Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
- Xavier Bosch-Capblanch
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Affiliation Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Rifat Atun
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Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- 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 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 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
- Sandy Oliver
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Affiliation EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom
- Pierre Ongolo-Zogo
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Affiliation Centre for the Development of Best Practices in Health, Yaoundé Central Hospital, and University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Andy Haines
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene and 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 XBC and SL to developing the 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
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: JNL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JNL J-AR XB-C RA FE-J LG SL SO PO-Z AH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: JNL J-AR XB-C RA FE-J LG SL SO PO-Z AH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: JNL J-AR XB-C RA FE-J LG SL SO PO-Z AH. Conceived and designed the process: JNL J-AR XB-C RA FE-J LG SL SO PO-Z AH.