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Table 2 Coding framework applied during the qualitative document analysis process

From: Australian policies on water management and climate change: are they supporting the sustainable development goals and improved health and well-being?

Focus area for coding

Coding categories

SDH/HE coded throughout all stages of the analysis

Problem framing

• What is the problem represented to be?

• What response is considered appropriate by the government?

• What else needs to be addressed?

• How does the sector understand the relationships between their work and health and equity?

- Education

- Food

- Health systems

- Housing

- Distribution of income

- Stigma/discrimination

- Social relationships

- Social exclusion

- Transport

- Employment

- Welfare system

- Land/Country (interdependent relationship between an individual and their ancestral lands and seas)

- Gender

- Safety

- Culture

- Open space

- Natural environment

- Built environment

- Climate change

[17,18,19]

Are the values stated in the document consistent/neutral/inconsistent with:

• health as a value

• health equity as a value

Are the goals stated in the document consistent/neutral/inconsistent with:

• improved health as a goal

• improved health equity as a goal

Is the evidence that is used in the document to make a case for action consistent/neutral/inconsistent with:

• evidence on social determinants of health

• evidence on health inequities

Are the objectives stated in the document consistent/neutral/inconsistent with outcomes to:

• improve average health

• reduce health inequities

Are the strategies stated in the document consistent/neutral/inconsistent with actions to:

• improve average health

• reduce health inequities

  1. Source: Adapted from [14]