Scoping review of health promotion and disease prevention interventions addressed to elderly people

Table 3 Number of systematic reviews retrieved by age and sex categories according to the four general areas of intervention

General area of intervention	Age categories				Sex categories
General area of intervention	general population^a	55+	65+	other	both sexes	women	men
health promotion^b	54	47	66	15	171	9	2
primary prevention^b	55	51	94	19	205	12	2
screening^b	14	5	7	8	15	15	4
social support^b	6	7	18	4	35	0	0

^aon the condition that it encompassed the elderly population
^bsystematic reviews addressing interventions which were classified as fulfilling the criteria of at least one general area of intervention (either individually or combined with other general area/s)

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