About the Authors

Roy Rillera Marzo

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

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Asia Metropolitan University, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Global Public Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

Absar Ahmad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Manipal Tata Medical College, Jamshedpur, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Md. Saiful Islam

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centre for Advanced Research Excellence in Public Health, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Yasir Essar

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan

Petra Heidler

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten, Austria, Department of International Business and Export Management, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, University for Continuing Education Krems, Department for Economy and Health, Krems, Austria

Isabel King

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of the Sunshine Coast, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Maroochydore, Australia, Sunshine Coast Health Institute, Sunshine Coast University Hospital and Health Service, Birtinya, Australia

Arulmani Thiyagarajan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany

Kittisak Jermsittiparsert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Innovative Business and Accountancy, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand

Karnjana Songwathana

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Economics and Investment, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand

Delan Ameen Younus

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Directorate for Scientific Research Center, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq

Radwa Abdullah El-Abasiri

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Burcu Kucuk Bicer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Education and Informatics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Nhat Tan Pham

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Business, International University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Titik Respati

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Graduate Studies, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

Susan Fitriyana

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

Erwin Martinez Faller

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, San Pedro College, Davao City, Philippines

Aries Moralidad Baldonado

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Nursing, Saint Alexius College, City of Koronadal, Philippines

Md Arif Billah

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Yadanar Aung

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Statistics Division, Department of Medical Research, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Shehu Muhammad Hassan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Muhammad Mujtaba Asad

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Education Department, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan

Kareem Ahmed El-Fass

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia

Sudip Bhattacharya

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, India

Sunil Shrestha

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

Nouran Ameen Elsayed Hamza

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Agency for Research and Statistics, Giza, Egypt, Clinical Research Key (CRK-CRO), Nairobi, Kenya

Pascal Friedmann

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lumpkin College of Business and Technology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Head

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Informatics Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Yulan Lin

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yulanlin@fjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China

Siyan Yi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, KHANA Center for Population Health Research, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Center for Global Health Research, Touro University California, Vallejo, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.