About the Authors

Sayem Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sayemahmed@icddrb.org

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Health Economics and Policy Research Group, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Abdur Razzaque Sarker

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Marufa Sultana

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Sanchita Chakrovorty

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Mohammad Wahid Ahmed

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Farzana Dorin

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Andrew J. Mirelman

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Ziaul Islam

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Hafizur Rahman

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics Unit, Ministry of Health and family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Louis W. Niessen

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Clas Rehnberg

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Policy Research Group, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jahangir A. M. Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing Research Group, Universal health Coverage, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Health Economics and Policy Research Group, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.