Reviews in Public Health and Health Promotion

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions: Cochrane Book Series

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 593-606

  Armstrong, Rebecca ^a   Waters, Elizabeth ^a   Doyle, Jodie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health intervention effectiveness reviews; Health problem baseline prevalence; PROGRESS = residence, race or ethnicity, occupation, gender, religion, education; Public health and health promotion; Public health and health promotion reviews; Socio economic position (SES); Study quality and risk of bias assessment; Systematic reviews intervention sustainability; Target population characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890652376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712184.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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