Measuring adequacy of the midwifery workforce using standards of competency and scope of work: Exploring the density and distribution of midwives in three low- and middle-income countries using cross-sectional and geospatial data

• Jewel Gausman,

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

  Affiliation Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sowmya Ramesh,

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

  Affiliation Population Council, New Delhi, India

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• Richard M. Adanu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana

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• Delia A. B. Bandoh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

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• Jeff Blossom,

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

  Affiliation Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Suchandrima Chakraborty,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Council, New Delhi, India

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• Ernest Kenu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8007-0073

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• Nizamuddin Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Council, New Delhi, India

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• Ana Langer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Magdalene A. Odikro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

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• Niranjan Saggurti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Council, New Delhi, India

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• R. Rima Jolivet

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

  * E-mail: rjolivet@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1440-4722

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