About the Authors

Phuong The Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nguyenthephuong.hmu@gmail.com, phuong.nguyen@r.hit-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Research Center for Health Policy and Economics, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Population Data Science, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan

Ryota Nakamura

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Hideyasu Shimadzu

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Data Science, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan

Aminu Kende Abubakar

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Population Data Science, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

Phuong Mai Le

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Trials, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Huy Van Nguyen

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hoa L. Nguyen

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Motohiro Sato

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Health Policy and Economics, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Ayako Honda

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Health Policy and Economics, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Stuart Gilmour

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.