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Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review
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Author:
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Pons i Vigués, Mariona; Díez, Elia; Morrison Esteve, Joana, 1977-; Salas Nicás, Sergio; Hoffmann, Rasmus; Burstrom, Bo; Dijk, Jitse P van; Borrell i Thió, Carme
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Abstract:
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Background: Health inequalities can be tackled with appropriate health and social policies, involving all community groups and governments, from local to global. The objective of this study was to carry out a scoping review on social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities published in scientific journals. Methods: Scoping review. The search was done in “PubMed” and the “Sociological Abstracts” database and was limited to articles published between 1995 and 2011. The inclusion criteria were: interventions had to take place in European cities and they had to state the reduction of health inequalities among their objectives. Results: A total of 54 papers were included, of which 35.2% used an experimental design, and 74.1% were carried out in the United Kingdom. The whole city was the setting in 27.8% of them and 44.4% were based on promoting healthy behaviours. Adults and children were the most frequent target population and half of the interventions had a universal approach and the other half a selective one. Half of the interventions were evaluated and showed positive results. Conclusions: Although health behaviours are not the main determinants of health inequalities, the majority of the selected documents were based on evaluations of interventions focusing on them. |
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This article has been partially funded by the project INEQ-CITIES, “Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: evidence and policies of cities of Europe”; project funded by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (Commission of the European Union), project n°2008 12 13 |
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-Salut -- Desigualtats regionals -Política social -- Unió Europea, Països de la -Health inequalities -Public policies -Interventions -Cities -Urban health -Scoping review |
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© 2014 Pons-Vigués et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Article Article - Published version |
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BioMed Central
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