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Table 3 Key words used in the search strategy

From: Women’s participation in the prevention and control of dengue using environmental methods in the global south: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Initial Scan

Dengue AND (gender or women or female) AND (prevention and/or control)

Additional keywords for initial broad searches:

(intervention or program/me or practice/s) AND (communities) AND/OR (formal or informal) AND/OR (participation or engagement or consultation or involvement or deliberative) OR (policy or health or healthcare or system or government or civil society) AND (qualitative research) AND (vector or mosquito) AND (urban or environment/al) AND (upgrading or development or planning or design or management or manipulation or modification) AND (global south or country or nation/s) AND (Africa or Asia or South East or Latin America or Pacific)

And strings ofa:

(vector-borne disease or communicable disease or neglected tropical disease or infectious disease) AND (protect/ion or measures) AND (girls or men or boys or male or transgender or non-binary) AND/OR (equality or equity or inclusion/include/d or exclusion/exclude/d or change) AND (integrated or multi-sectoral/multisectoral or social or preparedness) AND/OR (emergency response or outbreak or epidemic or endemic or pandemic) AND/OR (pathogen or sickness or illness or wellbeing or well-being) AND/OR (international and/or development or governance or health systems strengthening or World Health Organization or health sector or global health policy or health policy or Ministry of Health or plan or strategy) AND/OR (ecosystem or climate change or pollution) AND/OR (clinical or risk or causal and/or pathway or determinants or epidemiology) AND/OR (people or family or households or tribe or village) AND/OR (socio-economic or jobs or business) AND/OR (empowerment) AND/OR (hierarchy or structure/ral) AND/OR (hospital or clinical or facility or medication) AND/OR (water or waste or sanitation or fogging or net or spray/ing or container or upturned or pipe or bed and/or net or WASH or chemical or land or access) AND (vulnerable or marginalised or discrimination or minority) AND/OR (monitoring and/or evaluation)

  1. aDescriptive data on dengue scenarios are often buried in papers centred on a variety of diseases and do not come up in key word searches using the initial obvious key words, so the broader keywords in row three were employed