About the Authors

Tony Blakely

tony.blakely@otago.ac.nz

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Linda J. Cobiac

Affiliations Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches to NCD Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Christine L. Cleghorn

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Amber L. Pearson

Affiliations Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Frederieke S. van der Deen

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Giorgi Kvizhinadze

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Nhung Nghiem

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Melissa McLeod

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Nick Wilson

Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB LJC CLC ALP FSvdD GK NN MM NW. Analyzed the data: TB LJC CLC ALP FSvdD GK NN MM NW. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: TB LJC CLC ALP FSvdD GK NN MM NW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TB LJC CLC ALP FSvdD GK NN MM NW. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: TB LJC CLC ALP FSvdD GK NN MM NW. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.