Table 1 Inclusion & exclusion criteria

Population:

Population:

 · Western/developed countries

 · Children

 · Hard to reach populations

Intervention:

 · High risk groups

 · Disease-specific health checks/screening (other than heart disease)

Intervention:

 · Geriatric annual health checks

 · General health checks

Control:

 · Heart disease health checks

 · Studies from the developing world

 · General/Heart AND other disease-specific health check

Limits:

 · Studies whose primary outcome was to increase uptake

 · Non-English language papers

 · Studies where uptake was documented (of the above interventions)

 · Non-empirical opinion papers

Control:

 · Papers published pre 1980

 · Control group not necessary

Outcome:

 · Initial uptake of screening and/or

 · Long term engagement with services