Challenges of performing essential public health functions by the physicians at leadership positions in peripheral level government health system in Bangladesh: A qualitative exploratory study

• Dipika Shankar Bhattacharyya ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dipikashankar@gmail.com

  Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0887-8937

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• Sohana Shafique,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Iffat Nowrin,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Iqbal Anwar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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