Table 1 Study designs, review search terms and databases used in the literature review of scaling up public health action
From: Narrative review of models and success factors for scaling up public health interventions
Study descriptions | Review search terms | Review databases |
|---|---|---|
Theoretical and opinion pieces | Scaling up OR | MEDLINE (general medicine) |
Scalability OR | CINAHL (nursing and allied health) | |
Case studies | Intervention research OR | |
Translational research OR | EBM reviews—Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2005 to December 2013 | |
Descriptive studies | Research dissemination OR | |
Intervention studies | Health promotion AND | |
Frameworks | Public health AND | |
PsycINFO (psychology and related behavioural and social sciences) | ||
Systematic reviews | ||
Google Scholar |