Health care seeking behaviour and financial protection of patients with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in rural West Bengal, India

• Sandipta Chakraborty,

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

  Affiliations Institute of Public Health, Kalyani, West Bengal, India, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, West Bengal, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-8035

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• Rajesh Kumar Rai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rajesh.iips28@gmail.com

  Affiliations Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, West Bengal, India, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-9937

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• Asit Kumar Biswas,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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• Anamitra Barik,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, West Bengal, India, Suri District Hospital, Suri, West Bengal, India

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• Preeti Gurung,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medecins Sans Frontieres, Manipur, India

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• Devarsetty Praveen

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Primary Health Care Research, The George Institute for Global Health, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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