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Current Issue: Equity Update; May 7, 2012; 6(1)

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Methods Documents

Ueffing E, Tugwell P, Welch V, Petticrew M, Kristjansson E for the Cochrane Health Equity Field.  2009.  Equity Checklist for Systematic Review Authors.  Version 2011-11-08. 

Articles

Welch V, Petticrew M, Ueffing E, Benkhalti Jandu M, Brand K, et al. (2012) Does Consideration and Assessment of Effects on Health Equity Affect the Conclusions of Systematic Reviews? A Methodology Study. PLoS ONE 7( ): e31360. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031360. Available: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031360.

Petticrew M, Tugwell P, Kristjansson E, Oliver S, Ueffing E, Welch V. Damned if you do, damned if you don't: subgroup analysis and equity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2011. Available: http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2011/06/06/jech.2010.121095.short?rss=1

Anderson LM, Petticrew M, Rehfuess E, Armstrong R, Ueffing E, Baker P, Francis D, Tugwell P. Using logic models to capture complexity in systematic reviews. Research Synthesis Methods 2011 Jun 10.  Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.32.

Bonell C, Harden A, Wells H, Jamal F, Fletcher A, Petticrew M, Thomas J, Whitehead M, Campbell R, Murphy S, Moore L. Protocol for systematic review of the effects of schools and school-environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and syntheses. BMC Public Health 2011; 11(1):453

Ogilvie D, Cummins S et al. Assessing the Evaluability of Complex Public Health Interventions: Five Questions for Researchers, Funders, and Policymakers. Milbank Quarterly 2011; 89(2):206-225.

Petticrew M. When are complex interventions “complex”? When are simple interventions “simple”? Eur J Public Health, 2011; 21(4):397-398.

Petticrew M,  McCartney G. Using systematic reviews to separate scientific from policy debate relevant to climate change.  Am J Prev Med. 2011 40 (5) 2011, 576-578.

Petticrew M, Chalabi Z, Jones DR. To RCT or not to RCT. Deciding when “more evidence is needed” for public health policy and practice  (JECH in press, 2011).

Booth A, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. An International Registry of Systematic Review Protocols.  Lancet. 2010. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60903-8.

Gibson M, Petticrew M, Bambda C, Sowden A, Wright K, Whitehead M. Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health & Place. 2011; 17(1):175-184.

Welch V, Tugwell P, Petticrew M, de Montigny J, Ueffing E, Kristjansson B, McGowan J, Benkhalti Jandu M, Wells GA, Brand K, Smylie J. How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Dec 8;12:MR000028

Wilson P, Petticrew M, Calnan M, Nazareth I. Dissemination: what should researchers do? A systematic review of conceptual planning frameworks.   Implementation Science 2010, 5:91.

Tugwell P, Petticrew M, Kristjansson E, Welch V, Ueffing E, Waters E, Bonnefoy J, Morgan A, Doohan E, Kelly MP.  Assessing equity in systematic reviews:  realising the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.  BMJ. 2010 Sept 13;341:c4739.

Petticrew M, Tugwell P, Welch V, Ueffing E, Kristjansson E, Armstrong R, Doyle J and Waters E. Better evidence about wicked issues in tackling health inequities. Journal of Public Health  2009; doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdp076.

Singh JA, Christensen R, Wells GA, Suarez-Almazor ME, Buchbinder R, Lopez-Olivo MA, Tanjong GE, Tugwell P. Biologics for rheumatoid arthritis: an overview of Cochrane reviews. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009;(4):CD007848.

Tugwell P, Maxwell L, Welch V, Kristjansson E, Petticrew M, Wells G, Buchbinder R, Suarez-Almazor M, Nowlan MA, Ueffing E, Khan M, Shea B, Tsikata S.  Is health equity considered in systematic reviews of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group?  Arthritis Care & Research 2008;59(11):1603-10.

Thomas S, Fayter D, Misso K, Ogilvie D, Petticrew M, Sowden A, Whitehead M, Worthy G.  Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking:  systematic review.  Tobacco Control, published online 19 May 2008.

Dans AM, Dans L, Oxman AD, Robinson V, Acuin J, Tugwell P, Dennis R, Kang D.  Assessing equity in clinical practice guidelines.  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 60(6):540-6, 2007.

Fedorowicz Z, Waters E, Tugwell P, Nasser M. Health research priority setting in developing countries of the eastern Mediterranean region: partnering with the Cochrane Collaboration. East Mediterr Health J 13(3):727-30, 2007 May-Jun.

Greenhalgh T, Kristjansson E, Robinson V. Realist review to understand the efficacy of school feeding programmes. BMJ 335(7625):858-61, 2007 Oct 27.

James PD, Wilkins R, Detsky AS, Tugwell P, Manuel DG. Avoidable mortality by neighbourhood income in Canada: 25 years after the establishment of universal health insurance. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61:287-96, 2007.

Kristjansson E, Robinson V, Petticrew M, Macdonald B, Krasevec J, Janzen L, Greenhalgh T, Wells G, Macgowan J, Farmer A, Shea B, Mayhew A, Tugwell P. School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged elementary school children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1):CD004676, 2007.

Tugwell P, de Savigny D, Hawker G, Robinson V. Applying clinical epidemiological methods to health equity: the equity effectiveness loop. [Review]. BMJ 332(7537):358-61, 2006.  http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7537/358

Tugwell P, O'Connor A, Andersson N, Mhatre S, Kristjansson E, Jacobsen MJ, Robinson V, Hatcher-Roberts J, Shea B, Francis D, Beardmore J, Wells GA, Losos J. Reduction of inequalities in health: assessing evidence-based tools. International Journal for Equity in Health 5:11, 2006.

Tugwell P, Sitthi-Amorn C, Hatcher-Roberts J, Neufeld V, Makara P, Munoz F, Czerny P, Robinson V, Nuyens Y, Okello D. Health Research Profile to assess the capacity of low and middle income countries for equity-oriented research. BMC Public Health 6:151, 2006.  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/6/151

Tugwell P, Petticrew M, Robinson V, Kristjansson E, Maxwell L, Cochrane Equity Field Editorial Team. Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations, and health equity. Lancet 367(9517):1128-30, 2006.

Tugwell P, Robinson V, Kristjansson E. The role of clinical epidemiology in health equity: Let's take action! Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58(8):751-2, 2005.

Tugwell P, Kristjansson B. Moving from description to action: challenges in researching socio-economic inequalities in health.[comment]. Canadian Journal of Public Health Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique 95 (2):85-9, 2004 Apr.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

Robinson V, Tugwell P, Petticrew M, Kristjansson E, Waters E. What works at enhancing health equity? Cochrane and Campbell. In: Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 2, Poverty, Equity and Health Research.  Geneva: World Health Organization, September 2005, pp 64-69.  http://announcementsfiles.cohred.org/gfhr_pub/assoc/s14810e/s14810e.pdf