Applying clinical epidemiological methods to health equity: the equity effectiveness loop
BMJ 2006; 332 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7537.358 (Published 09 February 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;332:358Data supplement
Acknowledgements: We thank Kara Hanson, Betsy Kristjansson, Christian Lengeler, Gord Guyatt, and David Sackett for their comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.
Contributors: PT is the guarantor for this paper, who had the idea for the paper, accepts full responsibility for the finished article, had access to all data, and controlled the decision to publish. DdS, GH, and VR contributed substantially to the acquisition and interpretation of data, drafted sections of the article, revised the article critically for important intellectual content and gave final approval of this version to be published.
Funding: PT is funded by the Canada Research Chair in Health Equity and a seed funding grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. GH is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Scientist Award and as the F M Hill Professor in Academic Women’s Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre.
Competing interests: None declared.
Ethical approval: Not required.
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