Health equity audits: a systematic review of the effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this systematic review is to explore whether health equity audits (HEAs) are effective in improving the equity of service provision and reducing health inequalities.

Design

Three databases (Ovid Medline, Embase, Web of Science) and grey literature (Opengrey, Google Scholar) were systematically searched for articles published after 2000, reporting on the effectiveness of HEA. Title and abstracts were screened according to an eligibility criteria to identify studies which included a full audit cycle (eg, initial equity analysis, service changes and review). Data were extracted from studies meeting the eligibility criteria after full text review and risk of bias assessed using the ROBINS-I tool.

Results

The search strategy identified 596 article

SUBMITTER: van Daalen KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8587574 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature