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ArticleJournal of public health policy2014

Choosing health.

David Ozonoff

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Article in Journal of public health policy, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Health from a health promotion perspective: a concept analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025
    Review
  2. Article
  3. What do we mean when we use the word health?Journal of public health policy · 2014
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David OzonoffDepartment of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA. E-mail: dozonoff@bu.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Melkirch Model is an important effort to establish a common framework for sustainable programs to improve health. We briefly discuss the choice to focus health and the assumption that individual and population wellbeing are always compatible. Despite the inevitable difficulties in such an ambitious endeavor, the Model is part of a critical conversation.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareGlobal HealthPublic HealthSocial Determinants of HealthHumans

Identifiers

PMID24943660

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Registered trials

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