About the Authors

Francis Morey

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Morey, T. Alafia Samuels

Affiliation Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Belmopan, Belize

Ian R. Hambleton

Affiliation Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

Nigel Unwin

Current address: MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

T. Alafia Samuels

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Morey, T. Alafia Samuels

Alafia.samuels@cavehill.uwi.edu

Affiliation Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FM TAS. Data curation: FM IH. Formal analysis: FM IH TAS. Funding acquisition: IH. Investigation: FM TAS. Methodology: FM IH TAS. Project administration: TAS. Software: IH. Supervision: TAS. Validation: IH TAS. Visualization: IH TAS. Writing – original draft: FM TAS. Writing – review & editing: FM IH NU TAS.