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Purpose:

• To improve effective and timely access to systematic reviews of relevance to natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies
• To use knowledge from Cochrane Reviews and other systematic reviews to provide reliable, up-to-date evidence on interventions that might be considered in the context of natural disasters and other major healthcare emergencies.
• To highlight which interventions work, which don’t work, which need more research, and which might be harmful;

Content:

• Summary of systematic reviews (main source Cochrane Library) – assessed and summarized by the Evidence Aid Team
• Other evidence available within the database which will have a fully functioning search facility to help people to get to the information they need more quickly.