From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Assessing the impact and effectiveness of intersectoral
action on the social determinants of health and health equity: <br>
An expedited systematic review<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Antigonish, <u></u>Nova Scotia<u></u> <u></u>Canada<u></u>:
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, <u></u><u></u>St.<u></u> <u></u>Francis<u></u> <u></u>Xavier<u></u> <u></u>University<u></u><u></u>.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">ISBN: 978-1-926823-12-6 - NCCDH_CCNDS
– June 2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF [64p.] at: <a href="http://t.co/XKBaA4nv" title="http://bit.ly/NSC5PE" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/NSC5PE</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font><b><b><i><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What
we did</span></font></i></b></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…..Using
streamlined systematic review methods we sought out evidence on the impact of
intersectoral action on health equity. Over a period of three months, we screened
over 10,000 articles, selected articles that met our review criteria,
critically appraised the included studies, and synthesized the findings.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><b><i><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What
we found</span></font></i></b></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The review includes 17
studies which met our criteria.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Few of
these studies reported on interventions which address structural determinants
of health. Interventions which focused on access to care and service delivery
were more common. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The
impact of intersectoral action is mixed, revealing a moderate effect to no
effect on the social determinants of health. The evidence on the impact of
intersectoral action on health equity is limited. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">A
number of tools and strategies such as project committees, funding, dedicated
staff, and clear expectations of outcomes for the population of interest
supported the initiation and implementation of intersectoral initiatives.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><b><i><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What
we learned</span></font></i></b></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Our findings support
what others have noted – much of the literature on the social
determinants of health to advance health equity is descriptive and there is
less of an emphasis on interventions. There are many examples of intersectoral
initiatives from across <u></u><u></u>Canada<u></u><u></u>
and around the world, yet outcomes related to health, the social determinants
of health, or policy for health equity are often not reported. Applying the
expedited systematic review method to the extremely complex and
context-specific nature of social determinants of health interventions has
emphasized the lack of available high quality, rigorously evaluated evidence.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><br></div></div></div><br>