Supporting the use of research evidence in decision-making in crisis zones in low- and middle-income countries: a critical interpretive synthesis

Khalid, Ahmad Firas; Lavis, John N.; El-Jardali, Fadi; Vanstone, Meredith

doi:10.1186/s12961-020-0530-2

Table 1 Characteristics of included studies retrieved in searches and with additional purposive sampling

From: Supporting the use of research evidence in decision-making in crisis zones in low- and middle-income countries: a critical interpretive synthesis

Year	Country/region of focus	Hazard type	Crisis	Reference
2002	Democratic Republic of Congo	Man-made hazard	Refugee crisis	[30]
2005	Southeast Asia	Natural hazard	Tsunami	[31]
2005	Grenada	Natural hazard	Hurricane	[32]
2008	Southeast Asia & China	Natural hazard	Tsunami, earthquake	[33]
2009	LMICs	Man-made hazard	Armed conflicts	[34]
2010	Southeast Asia	Natural hazard	Tsunami	[35]
2011	LMICs	Man-made and natural hazards	Multiple	[36]
2012	Southeast Asia	Natural hazard	Tsunami	[37]
2012	Peru, Uganda, Nepal	Man-made and natural hazards	Peru: Earthquake, tsunami, Uganda: Armed conflict, Nepal: Floods, refugee crisis, armed insurgency	[38]
2014	Haiti	Natural hazard	Earthquake	[39]
2014	LMICs	Natural hazard	Earthquakes, fires, and floods	[40]
2014	LMICs	Man-made and natural disasters	Multiple	[41]
2014	LMICs	Man-made and natural disasters	Natural disaster, industrial disaster, chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear, conflict, terrorism, civil disturbance, outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, major transport accidents, generic, multiple, other	[42]
2014	India	Natural hazard	Earthquakes, drought, cyclone, tsunami	[43]
2015	Southeast Asia	Natural hazard	Tsunami	[44]
2015	India	Natural hazard	Flu pandemic	[45]
2015	Southeast Asia	Natural hazard	Tsunami	[46]
2015	Pakistan & Haiti	Natural hazard	Floods, earthquake	[47]
2015	Zimbabwe	Natural hazard	droughts	[48]
2015	LMICs	Man-made hazard	Tsunami, refugee crisis	[49]
2015	South Africa	Natural hazard	Floods, wildfires, droughts, storm waves	[50]
2016	East Africa	Man-made and natural disasters	Conflict, draught, famine, internally displaced person, and refugee crisis	[51]
2016	Nepal	Natural hazard	Lightning strikes, floods, earthquakes and landslides	[52]
2016	South Africa	Natural hazard	Floods, droughts, storm waves and wildfires	[53]
2016	LMICs	Man-made hazard	Fragile and conflict-affected states	[54]
2017	LMICs	Man-made and natural hazards	Armed conflicts and natural disasters	[1]
2017	LMICs	Man-made hazard	Fragile and conflict-affected states	[55]

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