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The Campbell Collaboration (CC) is an international organization, inspired by Cochrane Collaboration. The CC group is set up to help policymakers, practitioners, and the public to make informed decisions about policy interventions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of the effectiveness of social and behavioral interventions in education, crime and justice and social welfare.
Founded in 1999, the CC seeks to avoid the bias that comes from the fact that single studies are specific to time, sample and context and that their methods are often of questionable quality. The Campbell systematic reviews focus on randomized trials and secondly on high quality quasiexperimental research designs. The collaboration seeks to establish both summative evidence of "what works" in public policy, formative evidence of how, why and under what conditions policies work or fail to work.
Why is this group important? The three areas that they study (education, crime and justice, and social welfare) are subject areas that have clear relevance to healthcare providers, planners and policymakers because improving education, reducing crime and preventing abuse and neglect can all contribute to better health.
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