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ArticlePLOS global public health2026

A closing window: Canada needs to deliver on promises on health equity and principled pragmatism.

Shashika Bandara, Muriel Mac Seing, Charity Oga-Omenka, Michelle Amri, Zahid A Butt, Amelia Dinh, Karina Dubois-Nguyen, Marie Dorey, Joelle Ducharme, Saad El-Din Hassan and 15 more

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Article in PLOS global public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Shashika BandaraDepartment of Global Population Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-138X
Muriel Mac SeingSchool of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Charity Oga-OmenkaSchool of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Michelle AmriSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6692-3340
Zahid A ButtSchool of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Amelia DinhDepartment of International Development Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1640-3589
Karina Dubois-NguyenUnité de santé internationale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Marie DoreyUnité de santé internationale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Joelle DucharmeSchool of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5321-4406
Saad El-Din HassanCanadian Association for Global Health, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1047-4174
Janet Hatcher-RobertsBruyère Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Justus HolbenSchool of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Tina LinesCanadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6819-306X
Nihad MahmalatFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
Margaret Mutumba-NakalembeSchulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Canada.
Hannah NeufeldSchool of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8336-9556
Nitika Pant PaiDepartment of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4672-0500
Sanskruti PatelCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4667-5990
Claudia Ximena Robayo-GonzalezSchool of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2101-7955
Bukola SalamiDepartment of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1030-0464
Lauren SmithDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Sarah SteckoCentre interdisciplinaire de développement international en santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8492-8313
Eric Tchouaket NguemeleuDepartment of Nursing, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Saint-Jérôme, Canada.
Kathryn E TiedjeDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-0533
Bilkis VissandjéeSchool of Nursing, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7064-0666

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID42848977
PMCPMC13649282

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