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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2020 Jun 15;261:113102. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113102

Table 2. Synthesis of intervention-specific impacts on health outcomes in primary and supporting evaluations.

A. Primary evaluations. B. Supporting evaluations.

Communicable diseases Nutritional deficiencies Maternal & perinatal Injuries Non-communicable diseases General mental health General physical health Quality of life Mortality Personal or neighborhood safety Social capital
A. Primary evaluations
Single Interventions Housing Interventions
TECHO (+) (+)
    Galiani et al., 2018 (+)(+) NS
    Galiani et al., 2017 (+)
Transportation Interventions
Metrocable (+)(+)
    Cerdá et al., 2012
Street asphalting NS NS NS NS NS NS NS
    Gonzalez-Navarro and Quintana-Domeque, 2016
    Gonzalez Navarro 2010
Sanitation Interventions
Water expansion Galiani 2007 NS(+)
Comprehensive Interventions Programa HÃ!bitat NS NS (+)(+) NS NS NS
    McIntosh et al., 2018
    Ordóñez Barba and Ruiz Ochoa, 2015
Ordóñez Barba et al., 2013
Vila Viva NT
    Friche et al.,2015
Favela-Barrio Soares 2005 NS NS NS NS
Slum upgrading Butala 2010 (+)
Each outcome measured at each time point within the evaluations included in the current review and the review by Turley et al. is represented by a mark in the table. Reference: (+) = significant health-promoting direction of effects;
 NS= non-significant effect; NT = notsignificance tested.
 Note: The Jakarta Kampung Improvement Programstudied in Taylor (1987) was not included as it only involved the assessment of poverty and no other health outcome or any other outcome in the pathway to health.
Communicable diseases Nutritional deficiencies Maternal & perinatal Injuries Non-communicable diseases General mental health General physical health Quality of life Mortality Personal or neighborhood safety Social capital
B. Supporting evaluations
Single Interventions Housing Interventions
TECHO (+)(+)(+) (+) NS (+)(+) NS NS
    Simonelli et al., 2013 NS
South African Housing NS NS NS NS NS NS
Subsidy
    Marais and Cloete, 2014
People’s Housing Program NS (+) (+) (+)NS (+)
    Shortt and Hammett, 2013
Piso Firme NS(+) NS(+) (+) NS NS (+)
Cattaneo 2009
Comprehensive Interventions Slum Improvement Program (+)(+)(+) (+)
Parikh et al., 2015 NT
Parikh et al., 2012
Parikh in press
Barrio Escopa project
    De Leon 1986 (+)
Slum Improvement Program
    Moitra 1987 NT
Small Towns Urban NT
Development Project
    Milone 1993
Slum Improvement project NS NT NS NT NT NT
    Abelson 1996
Zonal Improvement Program (+)
    Aiga 2002
Multicomponent physical NT NT NT
upgrading
    Moraes 2004
Each outcome measured at each time point within the evaluations included in the current review and the review by Turley et al. is represented by a mark in the table. Reference: (+)= significant health-promoting direction of effects;
 NS = non-significant effect; NT = not significance tested.
 Note: The Slum Networking intervention measured by Joshi (2002) was not included as it only involved the assessment of poverty and no other health outcome or any other outcome in the pathway to health.