Affordability of essential medicines: The case of fluoride toothpaste in 78 countries

• Athanasios Gkekas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Athanasios Gkekas, Benoit Varenne, Stefan Listl

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

  Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, York Trials Unit, University of York, York, The United Kingdom, NCD Department, World Health Organization, Oral Health Programme, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Benoit Varenne ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Athanasios Gkekas, Benoit Varenne, Stefan Listl

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

  Affiliation NCD Department, World Health Organization, Oral Health Programme, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Nicole Stauf ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Habib Benzian ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, WHO Collaborating Centre Quality Improvement and Evidence-based Dentistry, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Stefan Listl

  Contributed equally to this work with: Athanasios Gkekas, Benoit Varenne, Stefan Listl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: stefan.listl@radboudumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Dentistry—Quality and Safety of Oral Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8176-3397

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