About the Authors

Tony Robertson

tony.robertson@stir.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland

Gayle Beveridge

Affiliation Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catherine Bromley

Affiliation UK Statistics Authority, Edinburgh, Scotland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TR GB CB. Data curation: TR GB. Formal analysis: TR GB. Investigation: TR GB CB. Methodology: TR GB CB. Project administration: TR GB. Resources: TR CB. Supervision: TR CB. Validation: TR. Visualization: TR GB. Writing – original draft: TR GB. Writing – review & editing: TR GB CB.