Table 1 Search terms for the systematic review of studies examining the health impact of social assistance

- Social assistance

- Health inequalities

- Regression

- Social protection

- Health inequities

- Linear

- Social policy

- Health disparities

- Logistic

- Social welfare

- Health equity

- Poisson

- Social security

- Health status

- Multilevel

- Public assistance

- Mortality

- Multi-level

- Income benefits

- Public health

- Quasi-experimental

- Income supplement

- Population health

- Experimental

- Income supplementation

- Self-rated health

- Difference-in-differences

- Income maintenance

- Synthetic control

- Conditional cash

- Propensity score

- Welfare state

- Regression discontinuity

- Welfare program

- Instrumental variable

- Welfare reform

- Near-far matching

- Aid to Families with Dependent Children

- Decomposition

- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

- Cross-sectional

- Ontario Works

- Longitudinal