About the Authors

Md. Mizanur Rahman

mizanur_rub@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Global Health Policy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Stuart Gilmour

Affiliation Department of Global Health Policy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Eiko Saito

Affiliation Department of Global Health Policy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Papia Sultana

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Kenji Shibuya

Affiliation Department of Global Health Policy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: SG KS. Administrative, technical, or material support: PS. Study supervision: MMR PS. Conceived and designed the experiments: MMR ES KS. Performed the experiments: MMR PS. Analyzed the data: MMR SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMR SG. Wrote the paper: MMR.