Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Med
Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
Title:
PLoS Medicine
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1549-1277
ISSN
(Electronic):
1549-1676
Publication date Collection:
April
2013
Publication date
(Print):
April
2013
Publication date
(Electronic):
2
April
2013
Volume: 10
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e1001411
Affiliations
[1
]Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
[2
]Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
[3
]Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada
Author notes
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Contributed equally to the manuscript: NK VF. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript:
NK VF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NK VF.
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: NK VF. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions:
NK VF.
The Essay section contains opinion pieces on topics of broad interest to a general
medical audience.
Article
Publisher ID:
PMEDICINE-D-12-02726
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001411
PMC ID: 3614505
PubMed ID: 23565063
SO-VID: 88e0f1e2-9f45-4338-b23b-d0590be4889a
Copyright statement:
Copyright @
2013
License:
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The work was supported by a CIHR Operating
Grant #115214, “Ethics, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity: Integrating
Theory and Practice” though no direct funding was received or set aside for the writing
of this paper. The authors were personally salaried by their institution during the
period of writing (though no specific salary was set aside or given for the writing
of this paper).