About the Authors

Syed Afroz Keramat

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – original draft

syed.afroz@econ.ku.ac.bd

Affiliations Economics Discipline, Social Science School, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh, School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Khorshed Alam

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Rezwanul Hasan Rana

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, The Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Rupok Chowdhury

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Economics Discipline, Social Science School, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Fariha Farjana

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Economics Discipline, Social Science School, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

Rubayyat Hashmi

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Jeff Gow

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Stuart J. H. Biddle

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.