Does education sculpt healthcare choices? Exploring factors influencing healthcare utilization among female youths in eight low and lower-middle-income countries

• MD Nahid Hassan Nishan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: MD Nahid Hassan Nishan, Khadiza Akter, Afroza Sharmin

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

  * E-mail: nissan0808@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-0284

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• Khadiza Akter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: MD Nahid Hassan Nishan, Khadiza Akter, Afroza Sharmin

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Afroza Sharmin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: MD Nahid Hassan Nishan, Khadiza Akter, Afroza Sharmin

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, HBH International Nursing College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tazmin Akter Tithi ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Z. E. M. Naser Uddin Ahmed

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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