TY - JOUR
T1 - Health equity
T2 - evidence synthesis and knowledge translation methods.
AU - Welch, Vivian A.
AU - Petticrew, Mark
AU - O'Neill, Jennifer
AU - Waters, Elizabeth
AU - Armstrong, Rebecca
AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
AU - Francis, Damian
AU - Koehlmoos, Tracey Perez
AU - Kristjansson, Elizabeth
AU - Pantoja, Tomas
AU - Tugwell, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
The development and evaluation of these recommendations was funded in part by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research who fund the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, the Canada Graduate Scholarship for Vivian Welch and the Canada Research Chair Program for Peter Tugwell. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and not necessarily those of The Cochrane Collaboration or its registered entities, committees or working groups.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - At the Rio Summit in 2011 on Social Determinants of Health, the global community recognized a pressing need to take action on reducing health inequities. This requires an improved evidence base on the effects of national and international policies on health inequities. Although systematic reviews are recognized as an important source for evidence-informed policy, they have been criticized for failing to assess effects on health equity. This article summarizes guidance on both conducting systematic reviews with a focus on health equity and on methods to translate their findings to different audiences. This guidance was developed based on a series of methodology meetings, previous guidance, a recently developed reporting guideline for equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-Equity 2012) and a systematic review of methods to assess health equity in systematic reviews. We make ten recommendations for conducting equity-focused systematic reviews; and five considerations for knowledge translation. Illustrative examples of equity-focused reviews are provided where these methods have been used. Implementation of the recommendations in this article is one step toward monitoring the impact of national and international policies and programs on health equity, as recommended by the 2011 World Conference on Social Determinants of Health.
AB - At the Rio Summit in 2011 on Social Determinants of Health, the global community recognized a pressing need to take action on reducing health inequities. This requires an improved evidence base on the effects of national and international policies on health inequities. Although systematic reviews are recognized as an important source for evidence-informed policy, they have been criticized for failing to assess effects on health equity. This article summarizes guidance on both conducting systematic reviews with a focus on health equity and on methods to translate their findings to different audiences. This guidance was developed based on a series of methodology meetings, previous guidance, a recently developed reporting guideline for equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-Equity 2012) and a systematic review of methods to assess health equity in systematic reviews. We make ten recommendations for conducting equity-focused systematic reviews; and five considerations for knowledge translation. Illustrative examples of equity-focused reviews are provided where these methods have been used. Implementation of the recommendations in this article is one step toward monitoring the impact of national and international policies and programs on health equity, as recommended by the 2011 World Conference on Social Determinants of Health.
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U2 - 10.1186/2046-4053-2-43
DO - 10.1186/2046-4053-2-43
M3 - Article
C2 - 23799964
AN - SCOPUS:84886490630
VL - 2
SP - 43
JO - Unknown Journal
JF - Unknown Journal
M1 - 43
ER -
