TY - JOUR A1 - Davey, Sanjeev A1 - Davey, Anuradha A1 - Singh, Jaivir T1 - Metanarrative review: Current status and opportunities for public health research Y1 - 2013/4/1 JF - International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management JO - Int J Health Syst Disaster Manage SP - 59 EP - 63 VL - 1 IS - 2 UR - https://www.ijhsdm.org/article.asp?issn=2347-9019;year=2013;volume=1;issue=2;spage=59;epage=63;aulast=Davey DO - 10.4103/2347-9019.128111 N2 - Metanarrative review (MNR) is a new way of doing systematic review (SR), for topics which are differently conceptualized and studied by different types of researchers in public health system research. The key aim of this paper is to explore current status and opportunities of MNRs for public health research. A SR on the key search word: "Metanarrative review for Public health research" was done from key indexed journals abstracting databases (PubMed, Cochrane, BioMed Central, and Google Scholar, etc.,) in all forms including e-journals till 31 st August 2013 since last 30 years. A total of 33 articles met the inclusion criteria, both types of studies showing its good role and no utility, were included. Major criteria of impact, effectiveness, and evaluation of MNR in health system research globally were taken in search. Studies from both developed and developing world were included including conferences data, research reports, and data from books, on role of MNR in health system research were taken (excluding thesis data) to draw final conclusions. MNR is a type of SR based on a MNR approach, suggested by Greenhalgh et al., (2005). It is a systematic' review rather than a traditional expert-driven literature review and it ensures a rigorous and extensive treatment of the literature in public health research. MNR has a great ability to show heterogeneous topic areas in public health system research by opening up the contrasting and complementary paths in which public health researchers have studied the same topic. ER -