What types of interventions generate inequalities? Evidence from systematic reviews

By T. Lorenc, M. Petticrew, V. Welch, Peter Tugwell. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012

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Health Disparities due to Diminished Return among Black Americans: Public Policy Solutions (2018, background): “There is also a particular need to identify policies that minimize Blacks’ diminished return (Lorenc et al., 2013).”
Applying an equity lens to interventions: using PROGRESS ensures consideration of socially stratifying factors to illuminate inequities in health. (2014, methodology): “Therefore, interventions need to be designed and implemented with an ‘‘equity lens’’ to ensure that benefits reach the most hard-to-reach segments of the population and to avoid intervention-generated inequalities [12].”
Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality (2018, positive): “Interventions that target “upstream” factors such as the social and physical environment and food access are more likely to be equally effective for advantaged and disadvantaged groups than interventions that target individual behavior.(140,141) Efforts to simplify structural and technological compl”
PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity (2012, background): “A focus on health equity in systematic reviews may uncover evidence on intervention-generated inequalities [17], lack of evidence and the need for further research [15], or greater absolute impact for the poorest due to their poorer health status.”