One of our recent studies disaggregated stunting prevalence rates by sex and socio-economic status (SES) [ 9].
When studies disaggregated costs, there were not clear and common categories for input or activity cost categories.
Included studies (disaggregated by intervention where appropriate) were therefore grouped into one of three categories: (a) interventions reported to have a statistically significant effect, (b) interventions reported to have a statistically insignificant effect, and (c) interventions for which the statistical significance of the effect was not reported.
Census data was available for this study disaggregated by: five-year age group; sex (male, female); ethnicity (modified total ethnicity); and NZDep2006.
One study disaggregated 'South Asians', and reported that higher scores were confined to Bangladeshi girls, with Indians and Pakistanis scoring similarly to Whites [ 25].
Three papers included HBV, HCV and HIV routine testing.,, Twenty-seven studies reported on the gender of the inmates: 3 were female only,, ; 14 included both men and women,,, 37 39,,,,,,,, and 11 were male only.,,,,,,,,,, One study disaggregated by gender to include transgender.
The reason for including perinatal mortality as an outcome was based on the fact most of the studies do not report disaggregated data for stillbirths but do that by combining stillbirths with early neonatal deaths (i.e. perinatal mortality).
Eight studies fully disaggregated direct and indirect costs both before and during treatment.
We excluded studies that disaggregated the South Asian group into its component groups (eg, Pakistani, Bangladeshi).
More detailed studies comparing disaggregated standardized information will be important in evaluating the impact and effect of national differences in screening.
In the nine studies that disaggregated the sex of treatment initiators, the percentage of female treatment initiators ranged from 9%to85%5% (mean,26%%) (data not shown).
