Table 1 PICOTS criteria

Population

Adults and households at risk, or diagnosed with at least one of the following non-communicable diseases: cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases or cancers (tracheal, bronchus and lung; colon and rectum; pancreas; stomach; breast and prostate)

Interventions

Private sector provision of health care services that involves the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and/or management of non-communicable disease

Comparator

Studies focused on private sector exclusively, or both private and public sectors

Outcomes

Determinants and outcomes of health care seeking behaviour, at the individual and population level

Timeframe

1 January 2010 to 30 June 2022

Setting

Low-income and middle-income countries following the World Bank 2022 classification [47]