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Record W2011068924 · doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1485

Sharing evidence on humanitarian relief

2005· editorial· en· W2011068924 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2005
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicDisaster Response and Management
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRelief WorkGovernment (linguistics)Public relationsPsychological interventionEmergency managementHumanitarian aidBusinessInformation DisseminationInformation sharingPolitical scienceMedicineMedical emergencyNursingComputer scienceLaw

Abstract

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Sharing evidence on humanitarian reliefNeeds a publicly accessible, searchable, and comprehensive database O ne year ago the Asian tsunami struck, resulting in the largest humanitarian efforts of our generation.This year's hurricane Katrina and earthquake in Kashmir also showed that both developed and developing nations are ill prepared for major disasters.Rapidly sharing relevant information from relief agencies and academic and non-government organisations (NGOs) at such critical times can make an important difference to tens of thousands of people.Relief agencies conduct fact finding expeditions in emergencies, as well as important public health measurements such as water testing, measles surveillance, and conflict surveillance.Their reports often provide the most up to date and relevant evidence on relief situations, 1 but are too often shared only internally.For agencies and field coordinators to make informed decisions, access to this information is vital.We must, therefore, consider how to create and disseminate evidence regarding humanitarian interventions. 2 One absolute necessity is a publicly accessible, searchable, and comprehensive database on humanitarian disasters and approaches to relief.The lack of systematically documented or disseminated information leads to unnecessary duplication of efforts and ill informed decisions.Given the inadequacy of funding for relief aid, resources must be used wisely.Some relief databases are already accessible to the public and NGOs.The largest is Relief Web (www.reliefweb.int),established in 1996 by the United Nations, but it has been hindered by a lack of submissions from agencies and a reticence by academics to submit reports that may be under review at journals.Other resources include the SHARED Global Database, ELDIS (the Electronic Development and Environment information System), and ID21 (Information for Development in the 21st Century), but these have the same drawbacks as Relief Web and their reporting styles vary widely.Large NGOs and international agencies have, at times, maintained publicly accessible databases; smaller agencies sometimes post reports on their websites.None of these resources is sufficiently comprehensive.A comprehensive database would have many aims but would also have to overcome certain challenges (box).Furthermore, the quality of evidence needs to be considered.The thresholds for acceptable evidence on humanitarian situations may be different from those for therapeutic interventions, 3 and a formal hierarchy for it has not yet been established. 1 4Access to reports may allow evaluation of the effects of interventions

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.011

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.132
GPT teacher head0.493
Teacher spread0.362 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it