Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Shenderovich, Yulia ^a   Eisner, Manuel ^a   Mikton, Christopher ^b   Gardner, Frances ^c   Liu, Jianghong ^d   Murray, Joseph ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conduct problems; Databases; Low and middle income countries; Meta analysis; Systematic review; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85007575356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0134-2     Document Type: Article

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