About the Authors

K. G. Santhya

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

kgsanthya@outlook.com

Affiliation Independent researcher, Kollam, India,

Nicole A. Haberland

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

A. J. Francis Zavier

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

Affiliation Population Research Centre, Gandhigram, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.