Grant: Knowledge Synthesis Grant - PA: Improve Health and Health Equity

There is increasing recognition that simple health focused programs will not address the growing in health inequities worldwide. Thus, there has been a recent trend toward implementing complex interventions, programs and policies to address health inequities. Health in All Policies (HiAP), a governmental strategy that seeks to improve population health by involving multiple health and non-health sectors, is one such strategy. Although dozens of HiAP initiatives have emerged over the past few decades, some demonstrating great success in improving health and reducing inequities, the reasons for their success or failure have not been well studied. Governments, such as provincial ministries of health in Canada, would benefit from evidence syntheses on how HiAPS are initiated and contribute to improvements in population health. We will build on an existing project that has identified strong HiAPs worldwide and use methods of realist review to synthesize the information gathered on the initiation and success of HiAP.