Evaluation of frameworks demonstrating the role of private sector in non-communicable disease management and control: a systematic review and thematic synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Conduct a systematic review of existing frameworks to understand the for-profit private sector's roles in non-communicable disease (NCD) control and management. Control includes population-level control measures that prevent NCDs and mitigate the magnitude of the NCD pandemic, and management includes treatment and management of NCDs. The for-profit private sector was defined as any private entities that make profit from their activities (ie, pharmaceutical companies, unhealthy commodity industries, distinct from not-for-profit trusts or charitable organisations).

Design

A systematic review and inductive thematic synthesis was performed. Comprehensive searches of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Business Source Premier and Proquest/ABI Inform were

SUBMITTER: Somani NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9990678 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature