About the Authors

Angelica Sousa

sousaa@who.int

Affiliations Department for Health Systems Policies and Workforce, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mario R. Dal Poz

Affiliations Department for Health Systems Policies and Workforce, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Social Medicine, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cristiana Leite Carvalho

Affiliation Dental School, Pontifical Catholic University, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS MRDP. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: AS MRDP CLC. Planned the data analysis: AS. Interpreted the results: AS MRDP Produced the first draft of the manuscript: AS. Contributed to the interpretation of results: AS MRDP CLC. Read and approved the final manuscript: AS MRDP CLC.