The Health Care in Danger Resource Center offers you the opportunity to consult and download a wide variety of publications and other material dedicated to the protection of health care in conflict and other emergencies. The resource center welcomes relevant publications and material on the topic.
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Publication and reports
MoreThese publications address the issue of violence against health care from a number of different thematic areas, presenting to the reader a series of recommendations and practical measures to ensure access to health care and its delivery are safer.
HCiD Regional Meeting AFRICA - Final Report
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Security Survey for Health Facilities
The Security Survey for Health Facilities is a tool to help hospitals and other health-care facilities prepare for attacks against them and improve the safety and security of patients and health workers.
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TACKLING VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTH CARE IN IRAQ, LEBANON AND THE PHILIPPINES
Selected experiences
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Declaration by the Health Care in Danger Community of Concern about the current situation of violence against health care
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Checklist for a safer COVID-19 response
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Changing Behaviour - Tackling Violence Against Health Care in the Central African Republic, Niger and Nigeria
Selected experiences
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A matter of life and death : Tackling violence against health care in Pakistan, Peru and El Salvador
Selected experiences
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User Manual: Security Survey for Health Facilities
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The implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies: a guidance tool
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Time to Act: Stopping Violence, Safeguarding Health Care
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Protecting Health Care: Key recommendations
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The responsibilities of health-care personnel working in armed conflict and other emergencies
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Ambulance and pre-hospital services in risk situations
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Promoting military operational practice that ensures safe access to and delivery of health care
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Domestic Normative Frameworks for the Protection of Health Care
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Ensuring the preparedness and security of health-care facilities in armed conflict and other emergencies
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Safeguarding the provision of Health Care: Operational practices and relevant IHL concerning armed groups
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Campaign and audio visual material
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Poster for HCiD: De-escalating violence in healthcare settings
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Medical personnel didn’t sign up for this!
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Hope
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Protecting health care in armed conflicts : legal challenges
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Stop attacks: Patients, health workers, hospitals and ambulances are #NotATarget
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Voices of the Community of Concern - Cathrine Andersen
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Voices of the Community of Concern - Dr Otmar Kloiber, WMA
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Voices of the Community of Concern - Anna-Theresia Ekman, IFMSA
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Even wars have limits: Wounded have the right to receive medical care
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Rules of war (in a nutshell)
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Health-care workers must not be attacked
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Learning and training material
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Poster for HCiD: De-escalating violence in healthcare settings
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Trainings on de-escalation of violence at healthcare facilities
The ICRC along with its partners conducted a detailed research study on the patterns of violence against healthcare in Karachi. The report can be accessed here.
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Safer Access toolbox for National Societies
Practical guidance, tools/templates and reference documents
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Rights & responsibilities of health care personnel
E-learning tool for health-care workers
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Brochures and Journals
MoreA must read for those willing to understand what violence against health care is about, the essentials of the Health Care in Danger project, and know more on initiatives around the world to make access to health care and its delivery safer.
ICRC institutional Health Care in Danger strategy 2020–2022
Protecting health care from violence and attacks in situations of armed conflict and other emergencies
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Health Care in Danger: a Harsh Reality
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International Review of the Red Cross (HCID edition) – Issue No. 889 – 2013 Vol.1&2
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Ethical principles of health care in times of armed conflict and other emergencies
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MoreThe primary value of these reports lies in the description of the main patterns of violence that impede the provision of health care, including perpetrators, victims and circumstances.
A sixteen-country study, July 2011
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Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care, April 2015
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Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care, April 2014
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