About the Authors

Md. Zahid Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

md.zahid@icddrb.org

Affiliations Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Gazi Golam Mehdi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Khadija Islam Tisha

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Golam Rabbani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Wahid Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Subrata Paul

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics Unit, Health Services Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ziaul Islam

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shehrin Shaila Mahmood

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Financing, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.