About the Authors

Yoko Moriyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

moriyama.y.aa@niph.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Health and Welfare Services, National Institute of Public Health, Saitama, Japan, Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Nanako Tamiya

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

Affiliations Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Health Services Research & Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Akira Kawamura

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Thomas D. Mayers

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Medical English Communications Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Haruko Noguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Hideto Takahashi

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

Affiliation National Institute of Public Health, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.