About the Authors

Simon Lewin

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

Affiliation Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Heather Munthe-Kaas

Affiliation Social Welfare Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Benedicte Carlsen

Affiliation Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway

Christopher J. Colvin

Affiliation Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Metin Gülmezoglu

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

Affiliation School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Andrew Booth

Affiliation School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Ruth Garside

Affiliation European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Arash Rashidian

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.