Health policy
For this assessment, you are required to conduct a systematic literature review based on any ONE of
the issues below. The review should be 3,000 words (+/ 10%). Your submission should include
your search strategy, search terms and combinations, databases accessed and approach to identifying
and evaluating specific papers to and as an annex a screen shot of your search strategy. You should
include at least EIGHT and no more than TWELVE papers in your assignment. NOTE the 812 papers
refers to the ones included in the actual systematic review. You are likely to cite additional references
in your introduction/discussion. If you include grey literature in your review you need to justify You
are encouraged to develop a research question for your systematic review around one of the
following topic areas: * Informal economy and health (e.g. What strategies in what context have
worked to increase health care coverage and social protection for informal workers?) * Urbanisation
(e.g. factors that prevent older residents from aging well in urban environments?) * Migration (e.g.
what changes do rural residents experience with an out flow of young people to urban areas?) *
Aging (e.g. How are policymakers incorporating aging in their development agendas in lower and
middle income countries?) * Sexual and reproductive health (e.g. what strategies ae effective in
delaying first births among married adolescents?) You are encouraged to discuss your question on
Blackboard for feedback The review should be properly referenced throughout and a full reference list
must be provided. You should as much as possible use references from published literature. You can
use diagrams and figures to support your work but please reference where they have come from.
