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- The systematic review showed that school-based interventions are able to reduce health inequalities, but also to increase them.
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This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications.
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 1: Fiscal
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 2: Regulation
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 3: Education
- Secondary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 1: Preventative Treatment
- Secondary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 2: Screening
- Primary and Secondary Prevention: Multiple Intervention Studies
Fiscal strategies employed by the state use the tax system to change demand for products deemed healthy/unhealthy by increasing or decreasing price or rewarding/punishing particular behaviours. Eight reviews of the health inequality effects of fiscal policies in the domains of tobacco (n = 1), alcohol (n = 1), food and nutrition (n = 5) and the con...
These interventions were concerned with making and enforcing regulation to encourage/discourage products and services deemed healthy/unhealthy. Fourteen reviews of the effects on health inequalities of regulation in the domains of tobacco (n = 3), food and nutrition (n = 6), environment (n = 3), workplace (n = 1) and the control of infectious disea...
Education, communication and mass media are other policy delivery mechanisms available to governments to encourage/discourage products and services deemed healthy/unhealthy. Twelve reviews were included relating to the tobacco (n = 3), food and nutrition (n = 8) and reproductive health services (n = 1) domains. The results are summarised below and ...
These interventions were concerned with increasing the uptake of preventative health care services. Two reviews of the effects of preventative treatment on health inequalities in the domain of infectious disease control were included in our umbrella review; the results are summarised below and are described in Table 4.
Screening involves offering age-appropriate population-level testing for certain diseases. One review showed the impact of interventions on cancer control and prevention (n = 1); this is summarised below, and are described in Table 5.
Three systematic reviews also included studies that involved multiple types of policy mechanisms simultaneously. These results are summarised below and are described in Table 6. The smoking review by Brown et al. included four studies on the effects of multiple policies, including a combination of fiscal, regulation and education approaches. The e...
- Katie Thomson, Frances Hillier-Brown, Adam Todd, Courtney L. McNamara, Tim Huijts, Clare Bambra
- 2018
Oct 25, 2022 · The systematic review showed that school-based interventions are able to reduce health inequalities, but also to increase them. Structural preventive measures seem to be helpful in increasing health equity.
Sep 10, 2020 · Our review shows that complex community-based interventions can contribute to reducing socio-economic inequalities in health behavior and health status outcomes, or at least do not increase inequalities, respectively.
- Stefan Nickel, Olaf von dem Knesebeck
- 2020
Jan 6, 2020 · Do schools sustain public health interventions once start-up funds end? What are the barriers and facilitators affecting the sustainability of public-health interventions in schools in high-income countries?
- Lauren Herlitz, Lauren Herlitz, Helen MacIntyre, Tom Osborn, Chris Bonell
- 2020
Apr 6, 2020 · We also bring to light the health disparities across countries and suggest implications for governments to target educational interventions that can reduce inequalities and improve health, at a macro level.
The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review in order to explore, whether multiple community-based health promotion interventions improve the health of a socially deprived population overall (areal level) and/or reduce inequalities between socio-economically defined sub-groups.
