Reviewer’s report  
Title: Interventions to reduce adverse health outcomes resultin g from manifestations of gender 
bias amongst immigrant populations: A scoping review  
 
Version: 0 Date: 08 Aug 2017  
 
Reviewer: Susanne B. Montgomery  
 
Reviewer's report:  
Title: Inter ventions to reduce adverse health outcomes resulting from manifestations of gender 
bias amongst immigrant populations: a scoping review.  
 
This scooping review article examines interventions to reduce/improve health outcomes as a 
result of gender bias again st immigrant women. It presented represents an import addition to the 
literature. It is well written and informative. It is much needed given immigrant populations often 
struggling to adjust to immigrant country norms; I liked that the authors are careful to also note 
however, that the main immigrant countries mentioned themselves, continue to struggle with 
some of the sources/outcomes targeted by the review.   
 
The need for the review is based on the fact (to my surprise) that no such prior review exists. The 
methods chosen for the review, a scoping review, are appropriate based on the lack of existing 
work and include carefully selected grey literature - in my mind appropriately so. A scooping 
review plan was presented by the authors; it was well developed  and described, rigorous and 
seemed well executed and followed published guidelines for process and rigor.   
 
The authors clearly describe their methods, and present the results in easy to follow form. 
Besides noting studies conducted by country of interve ntion delivery and characteristic of 
intervention and target behavior (DV, IPV etc.), they also summarize the studies by study 
population. The note, that while most intervention reviewed were legislative efforts aimed at the 
general immigrant population, 2 7.5% were aimed at Latino immigrants and few are conducted 
on non -Latino immigrants (less than 40%) despite the current discussion regarding concerns 
regarding immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Arabic countries.   
 
The authors also review results by eme rging themes (common findings) across the studies, which 
present important results that are well connected with the authors discussion, gap identification 
and implications for future practice.  
 
I find the article informative esp. with respect to it pointing to the many gaps identified.  One of 
these is expanding interventions to more and broader target populations aligned with 
immigration patterns of each respective host country and the need for further interventions, 
especially interventions that have evaluations.  The article is well written, carefully edited and I 
have not suggestions for revisions.  
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