About the Authors

Md. Ismail Tareque

tareque_pshd@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Atsushi Koshio

Affiliation The Graduate School of Project Design, Tokyo, Japan

Andrew D. Tiedt

Affiliation United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, United States of America

Toshihiko Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MIT AK ADT TH. Analyzed the data: MIT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK. Wrote the paper: MIT AK. Critically revised the article: ADT TH.