Table 2.

MEDLINE/PUBMED search strategy for models, theories or frameworks

	Terms	Search strategy
Behaviour of interest (Be)	Management and leadership capacity of health workers	(“health”) AND (“manage*” OR “leader*” OR “work*")
Health context (H)	Capacity building programmes, health systems or public health	(“capacity building” OR “capacity-building” OR “capacity development” OR “capacity strengthening”) AND (“health systems” OR “public health”)
Exclusion (E)	Non-theoretical/technical models	“epidemiological model” or “disease model” or “care model” or “statistical model”
Models of theories (MoTh)	Theory, model, concept, framework	model* OR theor* OR concept* OR framework*
((((“health”) AND (“manage*” OR “leader*” OR “work*“)) AND ((“capacity building” OR “capacity-building” OR “capacity development” OR “capacity strengthening”) AND (“health systems” OR “public health”))) NOT (“epidemiological model” or “disease model” or “care model” or “statistical model”)) AND (model* OR theor* OR concept* OR framework*) Filters: English, French, Humans