The Eurothine project has developed an instrument to assess the transferability of foreign interventions to reduce health inequalities. This instrument consists of the following four steps (Mackenbach et al., 2007a):

1. Summarize the key features and outcomes of a particular intervention study.
2. Evaluate the potential relevance of the intervention to one’s own country.
3. Evaluate problems and possibilities with the implementation of the intervention.
4. Evaluate the extent to which evidence on the effectiveness of the intervention can be generalized to one’s own country.

Each one of these steps should be supported by a series of open-ended questions, that is based on a careful literature review and on discussions among groups of experts from different disciplines.

To see how this instrument can be applied in practice see Appendix A of the Final Eurothine Report.