Table 2 Sources and keywords

Electronic bibliographic databases

Midwifery OR (health care) manpower OR nurse midwives OR maternal health services OR delivery, obstetrics (obstetric delivery) OR maternal mortality OR midwifery workforce.

AND Emergencies OR emergency responders OR emergency medical (health) services OR emergency medical technicians OR disaster planning or civil defence OR emergency medicine OR disasters OR disaster victims OR disaster medicine OR disaster planning OR crisis intervention OR relief work OR refugees OR humanitarian.

 MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus and Science Direct

NGO websites

 American Refugee Committee, CARE, International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, International Medical Corps, International Planned Parenthood Federation- The SPRINT Initiative, Ipas, The International Rescue Committee, Jhpiego, John Snow, Inc., Population Action International, Save the Children, Women’s Refugee Commission, Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, CHANGE: Centre for Health and Gender Equity, Cordaid, Gynuity Health Projects, Medicins du Monde, Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, RAISE, Marie Stopes International, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Confederation of Midwives and Direct Relief

Research organisations

 Columbia University - The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Centre for Reproductive Rights, Emory University, Human Rights Centre- University of California Berkeley School of Law, University of Technology Sydney, George Washington University- Global Women’s Institute, Guttmacher Institute, The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

United nations agencies

 United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization