About the Authors

Vivek Jason Jayaraj

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Chiu-Wan Ng

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

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Awang Bulgiba

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

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Maheshwara Rao Appannan

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Sanjay Rampal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

srampal@ummc.edu.my

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.