About the Authors

Prashant Kumar Singh

prashant_iips@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation International Institute for Population Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India

Rajesh Kumar Rai

Affiliation Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel

Manoj Alagarajan

Affiliation Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India

Lucky Singh

Affiliation International Institute for Population Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PKS RKR. Performed the experiments: PKS RKR. Analyzed the data: PKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKS RKR MA LS. Wrote the paper: PKS RKR MA LS.