Indicators were selected based on their quality, validity, comprehensiveness, feasibility and relevance to equity.
Publications labelled as "doubtful relevance concerning equity" by one of the two reviewers were discussed until a consensus was reached.
The respondents were asked to discuss the validity of this information and its relevance for equity considerations.
The evidence for the relevance of equity in health could only be based on one literature review.
Step 2. The participants were asked to select their five most preferred indicators based on quality, validity, comprehensiveness, feasibility and relevance to equity.
Girls' reproductive and sexual freedom could be enhanced by the provision of adequate, unbiased information and services -especially regarding contraceptives- that comply with the standards of availability, accessibility, acceptability, good quality, relevance and equity.
Ten independent variables (sex, age, marital status, work status, income, financial situation in the last year, subjective health satisfaction, self-rated health, perception of importance of health, and chronic health condition) were tested against the four dependent variables based on previous studies linking their relevance to equity of access to healthcare [ 47, 58, 59].
The overall evaluation has a strong summative emphasis, focusing on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and sustainability of the programme.
For the sake of more clearly illustrating their relevance to health equity concerns, we focus here on interventions explicitly invoking the concept of food sovereignty, and which in practice undertake activities that reduce health inequities.
