About the Authors

Abraha Woldemichael

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Amirhossein Takian

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

takian@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Global Health and Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Health Equity Research Centre (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Akbari Sari

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Olyaeemanesh

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Equity Research Centre (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, National Institute for Health Research, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.