OBJECTIVES To identify key features of interventions that need to be considered in the design, execution, and reporting of interventions. METHODS Based on prior work on decomposing psychosocial and clinical interventions, current guidelines for describing interventions, and a review of a broad range of intervention studies, we developed a comprehensive intervention taxonomy. RESULTS Specifi...

• ensuring that government health policies improve the position of disadvantaged people; • assessing the differential impact of health policies across the whole population; • identifying potential impacts of health policies on specific groups within a population. Despite there being no agreement on the significance of this process—and the process still needs to be evaluated— HIA is being extens...