Table 1.
Search terms for the systematic review of studies examining the health impact of social assistance
| Social Assistance | Health | Methods |
|---|---|---|
| - Social assistance | - Health inequalities | - Regression |
| - Social protection | - Health inequities | - Linear |
| - Social policy | - Health disparities | - Logistic |
| - Social welfare | - Health equity | - Poisson |
| - Social security | - Health status | - Multilevel |
| - Public assistance | - Mortality | - Multi-level |
| - Income benefits | - Public health | - Quasi-experimental |
| - Income supplement | - Population health | - Experimental |
| - Income supplementation | - Self-rated health | - Difference-in-differences |
| - Income maintenance | - Synthetic control | |
| - Conditional cash | - Propensity score | |
| - Welfare state | - Regression discontinuity | |
| - Welfare program | - Instrumental variable | |
| - Welfare reform | - Near-far matching | |
| - Aid to Families with Dependent Children | - Decomposition | |
| - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | - Cross-sectional | |
| - Ontario Works | - Longitudinal |