Defining and measuring health equity effects in research on task shifting interventions in high-income countries: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Task shifting interventions are intended to both deliver clinically effective treatments to reduce disease burden and address health inequities or population vulnerability. Little is known about how health equity and population vulnerability are defined and measured in research focused on task shifting. This systematic review will address the following questions: Among task shifting interventions in high-income settings that have been studied using randomised controlled trials or variants, how are health inequity or population vulnerability identified and defined? What methods and indicators are used to describe, characterise and measure the population's baseline status and the intervention's impacts on inequity and vulnerability?

Methods and analysis

Studies we

SUBMITTER: Orkin AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6074666 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature