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Several studies have shown how energy poverty (EP) increases morbidity and mortality, being a growing problem worldwide. We conducted a scoping review to synthesize the state of knowledge on the relationship between energy poverty (EP) and health, analysing the results according to different axes of inequality (gender, age, ethnicity/country of birth, social class, territory). We searched different bibliographic databases (MeSH and free-text terms); Eligibility criteria: 1] studies or interventions related to EP or its different expressions (inadequate temperatures; financial strain, inadequate housing conditions, composite indicators, heating and energy efficiency improvements); 2] health or health risk outcomes; 3] OECD countries; 4] English or Spanish language; 5] published before July 2020. We selected 38 studies out of 2768 (23 observational and 15 interventions). Almost all were quantitative (89.5%) and almost …