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Table 3 Data extraction fields

From: The macro-economic determinants of health and health inequalities—umbrella review protocol

Review characteristics

Results of review

• Key economic determinants identified and their conceptual synonyms

• Economic characteristic, strategy, policy or intervention?

• Outcomes used

• Population

• Setting

• Number of studies included in review

• Number of databases searched and disciplines

• Was grey literature searched or citation follow-up carried out?

• Types of studies included

• Synthesis methods—narrative/meta-analysis/realist/etc.

• Time/language restriction

• Main results and strength of findings including variations by gender, ethnicity or socio-economic status

• Quality of underlying evidence: risk of bias and confounding, consistency across multiple settings.

• Proposed mechanistic pathways

• Clear evidence gaps identified

• Key contextual factors (e.g. political/social/historical)