Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review
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- dc.contributor.author Pons i Vigués, Marionaca
- dc.contributor.author Díez, Eliaca
- dc.contributor.author Morrison Esteve, Joana, 1977-ca
- dc.contributor.author Salas Nicás, Sergioca
- dc.contributor.author Hoffmann, Rasmusca
- dc.contributor.author Burström, Boca
- dc.contributor.author Dijk, Jitse P vanca
- dc.contributor.author Borrell i Thió, Carmeca
- dc.date.accessioned 2015-03-19T08:38:12Z
- dc.date.available 2015-03-19T08:38:12Z
- dc.date.issued 2014ca
- dc.description.abstract Background: Health inequalities can be tackled with appropriate health and social policies, involving all community groups and governments, from local to global. The objective of this study was to carry out a scoping review on social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities published in scientific journals. Methods: Scoping review. The search was done in “PubMed” and the “Sociological Abstracts” database and was limited to articles published between 1995 and 2011. The inclusion criteria were: interventions had to take place in European cities and they had to state the reduction of health inequalities among their objectives. Results: A total of 54 papers were included, of which 35.2% used an experimental design, and 74.1% were carried out in the United Kingdom. The whole city was the setting in 27.8% of them and 44.4% were based on promoting healthy behaviours. Adults and children were the most frequent target population and half of the interventions had a universal approach and the other half a selective one. Half of the interventions were evaluated and showed positive results. Conclusions: Although health behaviours are not the main determinants of health inequalities, the majority of the selected documents were based on evaluations of interventions focusing on them.en
- dc.description.sponsorship This article has been partially funded by the project INEQ-CITIES, “Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: evidence and policies of cities of Europe”; project funded by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (Commission of the European Union), project n°2008 12 13en
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- dc.identifier.citation Pons-Vigués M, Diez È, Morrison J, Salas-Nicás S, Hoffmann R, Burstrom B, van Dijk JP, Borrell C. Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review. BMC Public Health. 2014; 14: 198. DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-198ca
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-198
- dc.identifier.issn 1471-2458ca
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/23230
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher BioMed Centralca
- dc.relation.ispartof BMC Public Health. 2014; 14: 198
- dc.rights © 2014 Pons-Vigués et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.ca
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- dc.subject.keyword Health inequalitiesen
- dc.subject.keyword Public policiesen
- dc.subject.keyword Interventionsen
- dc.subject.keyword Citiesen
- dc.subject.keyword Urban healthen
- dc.subject.keyword Scoping reviewen
- dc.subject.other Salut -- Desigualtats regionalsca
- dc.subject.other Política social -- Unió Europea, Països de laca
- dc.title Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping reviewen
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