About the Authors

Maryam Akbari

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

Affiliation Institute of Health, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Seyed Taghi Heydari

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

Affiliation Institute of Health, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Alireza Razzaghi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Children Growth Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

Mohebat Vali

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Reza Tabrizi

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

Affiliation Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Science, Fasa, Iran

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani

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

lankaran@sums.ac.ir

Affiliation Institute of Health, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.