Filling the human resource gap through public-private partnership: Can private, community-based skilled birth attendants improve maternal health service utilization and health outcomes in a remote region of Bangladesh?

• Jahangir Hossain †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Health and Nutrition Team, CARE Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Anne Laterra ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anne.laterra@care.org

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Team, CARE USA, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7277-3350

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• Rina Rani Paul,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Nutrition Team, CARE Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ahsanul Islam,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Nutrition Team, CARE Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Faisal Ahmmed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Diaarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Bidhan Krishna Sarker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Diaarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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