Fig 1.
Analytical framework to understand the effect of public health interventions on health inequalities in LMICs [33].
Table 1.
Inclusion/exclusion criteria.
Fig 2.
PRISMA chart [53].
Fig 3.
Included reviews’ methodological weaknesses identified according to the AMSTAR2 checklist [51].
(*) Items identified as critical in the AMSTAR2 tool checklist.
Table 2.
Quality assessment of included reviews.
Fig 4.
Distribution of the primary studies covered in included reviews, by countries*.
* Seven primary studies from Lamberti et al. [93] were only identified by their country development category and world region. These studies couldn’t be represented in this map.
Table 3.
Overview of interventions promoting child health covered by the reviews and their impacts on child health and health inequalities.
Table 4.
Overview of interventions protecting children from infectious diseases covered by the reviews and their impacts on child health and health inequalities.
Table 5.
Overview of interventions preventing infectious diseases in children covered by the reviews and their impacts on child health and health inequalities.