The Equity Update newsletter for March 2009, vol.3(1), contains the latest news from the Field.

The Cochrane Health Equity Field is part of the Cochrane Collaboration.
The Cochrane Collaboration's purpose is to ensure that relevant, accurate, and current research about health interventions is available worldwide. Cochrane contributors conduct and distribute systematic reviews (available full-text in the Cochrane Library via NHS Evidence national library for health).

The Cochrane 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.

For more information on the Field, the Cochrane Collaboration or the Campbell Collaboration, visit the Cochrane Health Equity Field website.