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.
PROTECTION OF HEALTH CARE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT CASE STUDIES AND PROPOSED GUIDELINES
Law enforcement agencies and health-care providers coexist, including in emergency situations not related to armed conflict, such as various forms of collective violence. These moments of interaction can be both challenging and collaborative.
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Impact of COVID on violence against healthcare - Report published by ICN, ICRC, IHF and WMA
This report highlights the devastating impact of violence and abuse, and identifies good practices implemented to prevent, reduce, or mitigate incidents according to country’s circumstances and health personnel’s perspectives.
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MARKING TEN YEARS OF HEALTH CARE IN DANGER IN THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT
This report marks ten years of the Health Care in Danger initiative in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The stories it contains reflect the work that National Society staff and volunteers – acting alone and in partnership – have done over the past decade to protect health-care services from violence and attack, especially in conflict settings.
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Ministers of Health Meeting on Protection of Health Care from Violence 23 May 2022 Report
This closed meeting brought together the Ministries of Health of five countries, to share their experience, practices and ideas on protecting health care from violence.
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RESEARCHING VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTH CARE: GAPS AND PRIORITIES
It is the result of a strategic collaboration between the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Elrha, with research undertaken by RAND Europe, to provide a Situational Analysis and Review of the Evidence Base on violence against health care, as part of the ICRC’s Health Care in Danger initiative
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2nd HCiD ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING Report 21–24 June 2021
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HCiD EURASIA REGIONAL MEETING REPORT 2021 3–4 February 2021
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High Level Side Event on protection of health care 26 May
Final Report: Organized by the Swiss Confederation, the ICRC, the IFRC and the SHCC, the summit brought together HEALTH MINISTERS from around the world on the eve of the 75th World Health Assembly to take part in a global dialogue on the role of health ministers in protecting health care from violence.
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Legislative Checklist: Protecting Health Care from Violence
The document presents a list of questions (a checklist or compatibility study) that cover some of the main challenges related to the protection of health care during armed conflict and other emergencies. The objective of this checklist is to provide practitioners with a consolidated overview of their domestic normative framework.
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Protecting healthcare: Guidance for the Armed Forces
This document provides practical guidance on the measures armed forces can take to protect health-care workers and to limit the impact of armed conflict on access to, and delivery of, health-care services. It touches on matters relating to training, planning, operational readiness and the conduct of both domestic and extraterritorial military operations
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Gathering Evidence-Based Data on Violence Against Health Care
This report consolidates data from scientific publications on violence against health-care personnel around the globe; and data collected by the ICRC for its protection activities and health programmes. The report showcases different methods for data collection on violence against health-care to promote the analysis of patterns of abuse, understand the circumstances, causes and consequences and devise the appropriate responses.
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HCiD AFRICA REGIONAL MEETING REPORT 24–25 June 2020
The strategy emphasizes the implementation of concrete measures at the local and national level. In parallel, the Health Care in Danger initiative has transitioned from holding meetings of stakeholders at the global to the regional level. The regional focus allows stakeholders to share experiences on operations and approaches and develop and strengthen local and national partnerships, creating a Community of Concern to prevent and address violence against health care.
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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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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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Checklist for a safer COVID-19 response
Who is this checklist for? Managers of health-care services, individual practitioners and health policymakers worried about the impact of violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients during the 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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Protecting Health Care From Violence - A Global Dialogue For Peer Exchange Of Good Practice - Webinar
Read the report of a joint survey published in July 2022, which highlights the devastating impact of violence and abuse, and identifies good practices implemented to prevent, reduce, or mitigate incidents according to country’s circumstances and health personnel’s perspectives.
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Strengthening National Frameworks for the Protection of Health Care WHA Side Event
Event on protection of healthcare from violence on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly. One particular feature of this event was that the ICRC presented jointly with government representatives from Nigeria, Pakistan and Peru good practices that have been implemented in these countries for better protection of healthcare from violence.
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It's a matter of life or death - TV Campaign LEBANON
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Health Care should never be in Danger
This film looks at the practical solutions to protect health-care workers and facilities from around the world and shows that there are direct actions we can follow, implement and share to meaningfully mitigate and prevent violence that targets health workers.
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Poster for HCiD: De-escalating violence in healthcare settings
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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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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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Weapons Tool Poster
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TRAINING MANUAL for Ambulance and Pre-Hospital Response in Risk Situations – A PILOT
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HCID in a nutshell
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Review of the state of ongoing concrete initiatives and ICRC strategy on the protection of health care
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Poster for HCiD: De-escalating violence in healthcare settings
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TRAINING MANUAL
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Trainings on de-escalation of violence at healthcare facilities poster
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
Available in PDF and in hard copy.
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Ethical principles of health care in times of armed conflict and other emergencies
Available in PDF.
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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.
Gathering Evidence-Based Data on Violence Against Health Care
This report consolidates data from scientific publications on violence against health-care personnel around the globe; and data collected by the ICRC for its protection activities and health programmes. The report showcases different methods for data collection on violence against health-care to promote the analysis of patterns of abuse, understand the circumstances, causes and consequences and devise the appropriate responses.
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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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