Ever-increasing Caesarean section and its economic burden in Bangladesh

• Mohammad Rifat Haider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Rifat Haider, Mohammad Masudur Rahman

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

  * E-mail: mhaider@email.sc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0690-8242

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• Mohammad Masudur Rahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Rifat Haider, Mohammad Masudur Rahman

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America, Maternal and Child Health Division (MCHD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Moinuddin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Maternal and Child Health Division (MCHD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Statistical Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5417-1284

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• Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division (MCHD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Shakil Ahmed,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The World Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Mahmud Khan

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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