Originality Statement
Originality, Licensing, and Copyright Statement
Dear Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Maternal and Child Health
Title: ................................................................................................................................
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Type of paper: 1) Original Article; 2) Systematic Review/ Meta-analysis; 3)
Commentary; 4) Editorial.
Principal Investigator: ....................................................................................................
Co-Authors: ....................................................................................................................
Corresponding Co-Author: .............................................................................................
Corresponding Email: ....................................................................................................
I declare that:
1. The material/ manuscript submitted to The Journal of Maternal and Child Health
is original, is not built upon fake data, and has not been published in any other
journal, except for systematic review/ meta-analysis which is based on secondary
data/ published research articles.
2. Each author has participated sufficiently in the work and the order of authorship
was decided by all the author(s).
3. The author(s) understand that they are publishing their material in an open-access
journal, which follows the licensing condition under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecom-
mons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Under this licensing, the author(s) retain the copyright of this article.
4. The authors grant the publisher of this journal the right of first publication and
everyone in the world is permitted to use their work.
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