Table 1.

Inclusion/exclusion criteria used in this review

Included	Excluded
In English	In languages other than English
2004–2015	Pre 2004
Papers pertaining to training on any component of sexual and/or reproductive health outlined in the Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings, clinical and/or non-clinical	Training on general health
Description of the training program and a discussion of factors which facilitated or impeded the transfer of training into practice	Training and transfer process not described, training recommended not conducted
Papers addressing any point in the continuum of an emergency- from mitigation and preparedness, through response in the acute phase, post-emergency and protracted disaster response, to building more durable solutions	Development settings
LMIC contexts	High Income Country contexts
In-service or continuing professional development training courses, workshops, exercises/simulations, continuing medical education, multi-media training	Pre-service training, pre-deployment training for expatriate health personnel, self-directed learning, use of guidelines independent of training
In-country health workers	Expatriate/internationally deployed health workers
Established in-country health workers (any cadre) with some prior health training (not restricted to SRH or disaster health) and experience	Newly trained health workers (any cadre)