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ReviewLancet (London, England)2019

The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development.

Lawrence O Gostin, John T Monahan, Jenny Kaldor, Mary DeBartolo, Eric A Friedman, Katie Gottschalk, Susan C Kim, Ala Alwan, Agnes Binagwaho, Gian Luca Burci and 10 more

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

106 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Lawrence O GostinO'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: gostin@georgetown.edu.
John T MonahanOffice of the President, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jenny KaldorSchool of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Mary DeBartoloNorthwestern Memorial Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA.
Eric A FriedmanO'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Katie GottschalkO'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Susan C KimCenter for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Ala AlwanHealth and Environment, Government of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.
Agnes BinagwahoUniversity of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
Gian Luca BurciGlobal Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Luisa CabalUNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland.
Katherine DeLandDeLand Associates LLC, Geneva, Switzerland.
Timothy Grant EvansHealth, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA.
Eric GoosbySchool of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sara HossainSupreme Court of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Howard KohHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Gorik OomsGlobal Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Mirta Roses PeriagoNational Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rodrigo UprimnyDejusticia, Bogota, Colombia.
Alicia Ely YaminPetrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health PolicyFemaleGlobal HealthHealth EquityHealth Services AccessibilityHistory, 21st CenturyHumansLegal ServicesLife ExpectancyMaleSocial Control, FormalSustainable DevelopmentTransgender Persons

Identifiers

PMID31053306
PMCPMC7159296

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