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A Systematic Review Protocol of Opportunities for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention via Public Space Initiatives in African Cities

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042285

Keywords

public spaces; healthy cities; urban health; healthy environments; built environment; African cities; health promotion

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  1. British Academys Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being 2019 Programme under the UK Governments Global Challenges Research Fund [UWB190032]
  2. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) [16/137/34]
  3. UK aid from the UK Government

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This study aims to understand the significance of public space initiatives in African cities for promoting health and wellbeing, particularly through preventing noncommunicable diseases. The study will adopt both quantitative and qualitative research designs, and apply a mixed methods analytical approach.
Public spaces have the potential to produce equitable improvements in population health. This mixed-methods systematic review aims to understand the components of, determinants, risks, and outcomes associated with public space initiatives in African cities. This study will include quantitative and qualitative study designs that describe public space initiatives in African cities with implications for promoting health and wellbeing, particularly through the prevention of noncommunicable diseases. Only studies published after 1990 and that contain primary or secondary data will be included in the review. Literature search strategies will be developed with a medical librarian. We will search PubMed, using both text words and medical subject headings. We will adapt this search to Scopus, Global Health, and Web of Science. This systematic review will adopt a mixed methods analytical approach. Mixing will occur in extracting both qualitative and quantitative findings; in synthesizing findings; and in the analysis where we will integrate the qualitative and quantitative strands. The learnings from this study will contribute to advancing knowledge on noncommunicable disease prevention through public space initiatives in African cities.

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