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. 2018 Sep 20:362:k3597.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3597.

Lowering hospital walls to achieve health equity

Anna Matheson  1 , Chris Bourke  2 , Alison Verhoeven  2 , M Imran Khan  3 , Denis Nkunda  4 , Zaib Dahar  5 , Lis Ellison-Loschmann  6
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Lowering hospital walls to achieve health equity

Anna Matheson et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Hospitals have a pivotal role in reducing health inequities for indigenous people and other marginalised groups, argue Anna Matheson and colleagues

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Conflict of interest statement

Contributors and sources: This article resulted from a Salzburg Global Seminar on building healthy communities: the role of hospitals. AM, AV, IK, and DN were participants at the seminar, while CB, LEL, and ZD are colleagues. AM wrote the first and subsequent drafts of the article and coordinated the input of the coauthors. CB, AV, LEL, and IK contributed to the arguments made in the article and edited and commented on drafts. DN, IK, ZD, LEL, and CB contributed the country case examples. Thanks also to reviewers of earlier drafts for their suggestions for improvement. Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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