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International law’s effects on health and its social determinants: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Systematic Reviews, April 2016
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Title
International law’s effects on health and its social determinants: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis
Published in
Systematic Reviews, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13643-016-0238-0
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Steven J. Hoffman, Matthew Hughsam, Harkanwal Randhawa, Lathika Sritharan, Gordon Guyatt, John N. Lavis, John-Arne Røttingen

Abstract

In recent years, there have been numerous calls for global institutions to develop and enforce new international laws. International laws are, however, often blunt instruments with many uncertain benefits, costs, risks of harm, and trade-offs. Thus, they are probably not always appropriate solutions to global health challenges. Given these uncertainties and international law's potential importance for improving global health, the paucity of synthesized evidence addressing whether international laws achieve their intended effects or whether they are superior in comparison to other approaches is problematic. Ten electronic bibliographic databases were searched using predefined search strategies, including MEDLINE, Global Health, CINAHL, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Dissertations and Theses, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, PAIS International, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts using predefined inclusion criteria. Pairs of reviewers will then independently screen the full-text of articles for inclusion using predefined inclusion criteria and then independently extract data and assess risk of bias for included studies. Where feasible, results will be pooled through subgroup analyses, meta-analyses, and meta-regression techniques. The findings of this review will contribute to a better understanding of the expected benefits and possible harms of using international law to address different kinds of problems, thereby providing important evidence-informed guidance on when and how it can be effectively introduced and implemented by countries and global institutions. PROSPERO CRD42015019830.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 20%
Student > Bachelor 5 13%
Student > Master 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 20%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 12 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2016.
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#7
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