Conceptualising paediatric health disparities: a metanarrative systematic review and unified conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There exists a paucity of work in the development and testing of theoretical models specific to childhood health disparities even though they have been linked to the prevalence of adult health disparities including high rates of chronic disease. We conducted a systematic review and thematic analysis of existing models of health disparities specific to children to inform development of a unified conceptual framework.

Methods

We systematically reviewed articles reporting theoretical or explanatory models of disparities on a range of outcomes related to child health. We searched Ovid Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Scopus

SUBMITTER: Ridgeway JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724162 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature