About the Authors

Ramalingam Shanmugam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America

Gerald Ledlow

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Policy, Economics and Management, School of Community and Rural Health, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Karan P. Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

karan.singh@uthct.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Community and Rural Health, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.