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<strong>Gender</strong> Influences On Child Survival, Health And Nutrition: A Narrative Review METHODS We conducted a search via the Discover Database which combines 33 of the leading health and social sciences databases (such as Medline, CINAHL, Global Health, Science Direct, Scopus, Sociological Abstracts, among others). After some initial searches we honed the search terms and based the search on the following terms (see below). We tested the terms in order to identify the abbreviations that yielded the broadest results. <strong>Gender</strong> layer <strong>Gender</strong> OR Wom* status OR Wom* role OR M* role OR Wom* rights OR Wom* labour OR Wom* working OR Maternal education OR Maternal literacy OR Masculin* OR Family relation* OR Parent* Health terms layer Infant* OR Child* AND Health AND Nutrition* OR Immunization OR Survival OR Health seeking behaviour OR Treatment OR Barriers to healthcare OR Home based care OR Child care OR Breastfeeding OR Breast feeding OR Feeding Location layer Developing countr* OR Global South OR Middle income countr* OR Low income countr* OR Africa OR Latin America OR Asia OR Poverty OR Poor countr* OR Third World By combining the first two layers, the search yielded 176,649 results. Focusing on the global South, we refined the search by employing the third ‘location’ layer, which yielded 12,943 results. Finally we narrowed the list of results using the inclusion criteria (literature from 1970 onwards) and to those which included the search terms in the abstract or the subject terms/keywords since these results were more likely to have most relevance for the literature review. This left a list of 3,911 results to be scanned. We scanned these results and briefly assessed them to judge their usefulness for the topic in hand. Studies were excluded if they focused on aspects of child poverty in the industrialised world or when they did not mention gender. Others were removed due to duplication. The diagram below shows the number of studies which were included in the Endnote Library used as the bibliography for this project. The total number of references in the Endnote Library are 1,330, however these also include studies broadly relevant to gender and health. 11
<strong>Gender</strong> Influences On Child Survival, Health And Nutrition: A Narrative Review FIGURE 1: DIAGRAM DETAILING ELEMENTS OF THE SEARCH STRATEGY USED TO GATHER DATA FOR THE LITERATURE REVIEW Reference lists, websites, contacts & hand searching: 325 Database search: 845 (after screening) References saved to Endnote Bibliography: 1,170 (513 filed) METHODS Studies cited: 117 In addition the main database search, hand searches were conducted focusing on Health Policy and Planning, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Social Science and Medicine and Tropical Medicine and International Health. These journals were accessed between May 12 th and June 21 st, 2011. Due to time constraints we decided to scan titles included in journal issues accessible online. Social Science and Medicine has a very large number of issues per volume. In the time we had available it was only possible to scan titles going back to 1990. A number of articles were also identified and added to the Endnote Library from the authors’ own lists of relevant references and bibliographies. Each of these results was then reviewed and the abstract, or the paper itself, read in more depth in order to identify and categorise the studies thematically. In order to access non-academic, ‘grey’ literature for use in the review we used a snowball method to contact 42 experts in gender and health from across the globe (see Annex II for a list of names and dates contacted). We also searched more than 20 websites representing donor agencies, non-government 12
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