About the Authors
- Simon Lewin
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* E-mail: simon.lewin@nokc.no
Affiliations Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
- Claire Glenton
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Affiliation Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
- Heather Munthe-Kaas
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Affiliation Social Welfare Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
- Benedicte Carlsen
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Affiliation Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway
- Christopher J. Colvin
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Affiliation Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Metin Gülmezoglu
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Affiliation UNDP/UNFPA/ UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jane Noyes
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Affiliation School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
- Andrew Booth
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Affiliation School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Ruth Garside
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Affiliation European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Arash Rashidian
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Affiliations Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Information, Evidence and Research, Eastern Mediterranean Region, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt
Competing Interests
JN declared receiving a small grant from the Cochrane Collaboration to undertake a component of this this work and received travel expenses to attend meetings from the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SL CG HMK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SL CG HMK BC CJC MG JN AB RG AR. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: SL CG HMK BC CJC MG JN AB RG AR. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.