About the Authors
- Belinda J. Burford
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* E-mail: belinda@burford.co
Affiliation Cochrane Public Health Group and Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Vivian Welch
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Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Elizabeth Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Elizabeth Waters
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Affiliation Cochrane Public Health Group and Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Peter Tugwell
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Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- David Moher
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Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Jennifer O’Neill
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Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Tracey Koehlmoos
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Affiliation Centre for Equity & Health Systems, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDRB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhaka
- Mark Petticrew
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Affiliation Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Vivian Welch, Peter Tugwell and Mark Petticrew are co-convenors of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group which aims to “encourage authors of Campbell and Cochrane reviews to include explicit descriptions of the effect of the interventions not only on the whole population but to describe their effect upon the disadvantaged and/or their ability to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health and to promote their use to the wider community.” David Moher is one of the developers of PRISMA. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BB VW EW PT DM JON TK MP. Performed the experiments: BB. Analyzed the data: BB. Wrote the manuscript: BB VW EW PT DM JON TK MP.