About the Authors

Susannah Tomkins

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Tim Collier

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Alexey Oralov

Affiliation Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia

Lyudmila Saburova

Affiliation Social Technologies Institute, Izhevsk, Russia

Martin McKee

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Vladimir Shkolnikov

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany and New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

Nikolay Kiryanov

Affiliation Izhevsk Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia

David A. Leon

david.leon@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAL MM VS ST. Analyzed the data: ST TC. Wrote the paper: ST. Study fieldwork: AO NK LS. Data management: AO.