About the Authors

Samuel D. Towne Jr.

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

towne@tamhsc.edu

Affiliations Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Southwest Rural Health Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Yajuan Li

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

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Shinduk Lee

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Matthew Lee Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Gang Han

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Cindy Quinn

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Yuxian Du

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

Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Mark Benden

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Marcia G. Ory

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.