The Cochrane Health Equity Field is part of the Cochrane Collaboration.  The Health Equity Field is also co-registered with the Campbell Collaboration as the Campbell Equity Methods Group.  Both the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations are international, not-for-profit, and independent organizations.

The Cochrane Collaboration's purpose is to ensure that relevant, accurate, and current research about health interventions is available worldwide. To meet this objective, Cochrane contributors conduct and distribute systematic reviews.  Similarly, the Campbell Collaboration produces reviews with an aim to "help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas."

The Health Equity Field encourages authors of both Campbell and Cochrane reviews to include explicit descriptions of the effect of the interventions not only on the whole population but to describe their effect upon the disadvantaged and/or their ability to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health and to promote their use to the wider community.  Ultimately, this will help build the evidence base on such interventions and increase our capacity to act on the health gap between rich and poor.

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Are you looking to incorporate equity into your review?  The Equity Checklist is a tool that can help!

Equity Update published

September 29, 2009:  We've just published an Equity Update (Vol. 3, Issue 2)!  For the latest news from the Field, please download our newsletter.

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