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Jyani, Gaurav https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3787-2446
Gedam, Praveen
Sharma, Sameer
Dixit, Jyoti
Prinja, Shankar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-6986
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (F.NO.T.11011/02/2017-HR/3176774)
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Accepted: 17 March 2025
First Online: 11 April 2025
Declarations
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: The present study was funded by the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India vide grant no. F.NO.T.11011/02/2017-HR/3176774. There was no role of the funder in the design, conduct, and preparation of the manuscript or decision to publish the present study. This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant number INV-005598 which corresponds to the project “Comparative Health Systems Analysis of Selected Asian Countries”. The conclusions and opinions expressed in this work are those of the author(s) alone and shall not be attributed to the Foundation. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission.
: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. The ethical approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, vide reference no. PGI/IEC/2018/00125A.
: Concept and design—Shankar Prinja; acquisition of data—Shankar Prinja; analysis and interpretation of data—Gaurav Jyani, Praveen Gedam, Sameer Sharma, Jyoti Dixit, and Shankar Prinja; drafting of the manuscript—Gaurav Jyani and Shankar Prinja; critical revision of the paper for important intellectual content—Gaurav Jyani, Praveen Gedam, Sameer Sharma, Jyoti Dixit, and Shankar Prinja; obtaining funding—Shankar Prinja; administrative, technical, or logistic support—Gaurav Jyani, Praveen Gedam, Sameer Sharma, Jyoti Dixit, and Shankar Prinja; supervision—Shankar Prinja; all the authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.
: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.
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: All the original data and materials used for the analysis presented in the study will be made available by the corresponding author upon request.
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