*3.5. Summary and Synthesis*

Green et al. [93] recommends taking notes on each of the literature works reviewed and constructing a short overview of the research topic based on the literature. Accordingly, we designed a data extraction sheet in Excel, with which we extracted data and took notes from each of the studies reviewed. The data extraction sheet was designed to retrieve data on the objective of each study, the methods used, the variables that were investigated, the findings relating to land tenure security and health, and a section for author note and comments. Relying on thematic analysis, we explored themes within the findings by color-coding the data extraction sheet according to themes, grouping and synthesizing

the findings of each study to derive themes that address the connection between land tenure security and health. From this literature synthesis, we present our findings in the next section.
