About the Authors

Masoud Behzadifar

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

masoudbehzadifar@gmail.com, behzadifar@lums.ac.ir

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Samad Azari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Resilience, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Hospital Management Research Center, Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahad Bakhtiari

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sara Rahimi

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation English Language Department, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Naser Sharafkhani

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Salman Moridi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.