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ArticlePublic health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

The Importance of Policy Change for Addressing Public Health Problems.

Keshia M Pollack Porter, Lainie Rutkow, Emma E McGinty

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Article in Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Keshia M Pollack Porter1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lainie Rutkow1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Emma E McGinty1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Health PolicyPolicy MakingEvidence-Based PracticeHealth EquityHumansPublic HealthResearchevidence-based policypartnershipspolicy changepublic healthtranslation

Identifiers

PMID30426876
PMCPMC6243447

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