About the Authors

Yui Yamaoka

Affiliations Department of Health Service Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Nanako Tamiya

ntamiya@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Health Service Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoko Moriyama

Affiliations Department of Health Service Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Health and Welfare Service, National Institute of Public Health, Wakou-shi, Saitama, Japan

Felipe Alfonso Sandoval Garrido

Affiliations Department of Health Service Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ryo Sumazaki

Affiliation Department of pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

Haruko Noguchi

Affiliation Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY NT HN. Performed the experiments: YY NT HN. Analyzed the data: YY YM FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT. Wrote the paper: YY NT RS HN.