Public Health

Guidance on reviews

• Cooper C, Lovell R, Husk K, Booth A, Garside R. Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: A case study from public health and environmental enhancement. Res Synth Methods. 2018;9(2):195-223.
• Jackson N, Waters E. Criteria for the systematic review of health promotion and public health interventions. Health Promot Int. 2005;20(4):367-74.
• Thomas J, Petticrew M, Noyes J, Chandler J, Rehfuess E, Tugwell P, Welch VA. Chapter 17: Intervention complexity, Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, Cochrane, 2019.
• Tricco AC, Langlois EV, Straus SE, editors. Rapid reviews to strengthen health policy and systems: a practical guide. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Guidance on quality assessment/critical appraisal/risk of bias assessment

• Health Evidence Quality Assessment Tool
• MetaQAT: Provides a framework for quality assessment, direction to existing tools, and documentation templates

Guidance on synthesizing public policy

• Pearson A, Jordan Z, McArthur A, Florescu S, Cooper A, Yan H, Klugarova J, Stannard D, Edwards D. Systematic reviews of textual evidence: narrative, expert opinion or policy. In: Aromataris E, Lockwood C, Porritt K, Pilla B, Jordan Z, editors. JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. JBI; 2024. Available from: https://synthesismanual.jbi.global.
• Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policy

See also:

• Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and Other Knowledge Syntheses, McGill Library