Table 2.
Strategies used to address health inequalities.
| Strategies to address health inequalities reported in included articles | Included studies | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akobeng (2015) | Crombie (2018) | Hughes (2020) | Latif (2019a, 2019b) | Rixon (2017) | Tuijt (2021) | Turnbull (2020, 2021) | Vereenooghe (2017) | Walters (2017) | ||
| At study design level |
Study aims/objectives or tailored study components (e.g. sampling) explicitly addressing health inequalities | ⬤ | ⬤ | |||||||
| Use of any health inequalities concepts/frameworks to inform data collection/analysis methods | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |||||
| Targeted study population that can be classed as ‘disadvantaged’ or at risk of health inequalities | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |
| At intervention level |
Intervention aims/objectives or tailored intervention components/features explicitly addressing health inequalities | ⬤ | ||||||||
| Use of any health inequalities concepts/frameworks to inform intervention development/adaptations/delivery | ⬤ | |||||||||
| Intervention specifically designed/tailored to a population that can be classed as ‘disadvantaged’ or at risk of health inequalities | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ||||||