About the Authors

Jennifer Stewart Williams

Jennifer.stewart.williams@epiph.umu.se

Affiliations Department Public Health and Clinical Medicine Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

Nawi Ng

Affiliation Department Public Health and Clinical Medicine Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Karl Peltzer

Affiliations Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Alfred Yawson

Affiliation Department of Community Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Richard Biritwum

Affiliation Department of Community Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Tamara Maximova

Affiliation National Research Institute of Public Health (FSBI, RAMS), Moscow, Russian Federation

Fan Wu

Affiliation Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Perianayagam Arokiasamy

Affiliation International Institute of Population Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India

Paul Kowal

Affiliations Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health, Geneva, Switzerland

Somnath Chatterji

Affiliations World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health, Geneva, Switzerland, Surveys, Measurement and Analysis Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSW NN SC. Analyzed the data: JSW NN SC. Wrote the paper: JSW NN SC. Contributed to the design and implementation of the study, data collection and review of the manuscript: KP AY RB TM FW PA PK.