Prevalence and factors associated with caesarean section in four Hard-to-Reach areas of Bangladesh: Findings from a cross-sectional survey

• Farhana Karim ,

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

  * E-mail: farhana.karim@icddrb.org

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-1059

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• Nazia Binte Ali,

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

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

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• Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan,

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

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

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• Aniqa Hassan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Mohammad Mehedi Hasan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Dewan Md. Emdadul Hoque,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Nations Population Fund, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sk. Masum Billah,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Shams El Arifeen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury

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

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

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