Pons i Vigués, MarionaDíez, EliaMorrison Esteve, Joana, 1977-Salas Nicás, SergioHoffmann, RasmusBurström, BoDijk, Jitse P vanBorrell i Thió, Carme2015-03-192015-03-192014Pons-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 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1981471-2458http://hdl.handle.net/10230/23230Background: 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.application/pdfeng© 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.Salut -- Desigualtats regionalsPolítica social -- Unió Europea, Països de lainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-198Health inequalitiesPublic policiesInterventionsCitiesUrban healthScoping reviewinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess