Options for Optimal Coverage of Free C-Section Services for Poor Mothers in Indian State of Gujarat: Location Allocation Analysis Using GIS

• Kranti Suresh Vora ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kranti Suresh Vora, Sandul Yasobant, Raja Sengupta, Ashish Upadhyay

  * E-mail: kvora@iiphg.org

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  ⨯
• Sandul Yasobant ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kranti Suresh Vora, Sandul Yasobant, Raja Sengupta, Ashish Upadhyay

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  ⨯
• Raja Sengupta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kranti Suresh Vora, Sandul Yasobant, Raja Sengupta, Ashish Upadhyay

  Affiliation Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  ⨯
• Ayesha De Costa ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  ⨯
• Ashish Upadhyay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kranti Suresh Vora, Sandul Yasobant, Raja Sengupta, Ashish Upadhyay

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  ⨯
• Dileep V. Mavalankar

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  ⨯