Addressing social determinants of noncommunicable diseases in primary care: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore how primary care organizations assess and subsequently act upon the social determinants of noncommunicable diseases in their local populations.

Methods

For this systematic review we searched the online databases of PubMed®, MEDLINE®, Embase® and the Health Management Information Consortium from inception to 28 June 2019, along with hand-searching of references. Studies of any design that examined a primary care organization assessing social determinants of noncommunicable diseases were included. For quality assessment we used Cochrane's tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions. We used narrative data synthesis to appraise the extent to which the assessments gathered data on the domains of the World Health Organization so

SUBMITTER: Allen LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607469 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature