Trends, wealth inequalities and the role of the private sector in caesarean section in the Middle East and North Africa: A repeat cross-sectional analysis of population-based surveys

• Stephen J. McCall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sm227@aub.edu.lb (SJM); tk00@aub.edu.lb (TKK)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-7010

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• Aline Semaan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aline Semaan, Noon Altijani

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Noon Altijani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aline Semaan, Noon Altijani

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Charles Opondo,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Mohamed Abdel-Fattah,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aberdeen Center for Women’s Health Research, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sm227@aub.edu.lb (SJM); tk00@aub.edu.lb (TKK)

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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