Emergency care is powerfully aligned with the primary health care agenda as it provides first contact clinical care for those who are acutely ill or injured. Pre-hospital and facility-based emergency care is a high impact and cost-effective form of secondary prevention.
Early detection and rapid response to signals of potential public health events can prevent local events from becoming global emergencies. WHO works to quickly detect health threats, assess their risks, and send timely alerts. Under the International Health Regulations, WHO is mandated to detect and assess public health risks and events, help countries respond to them, and share critical ...
The Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment area of work provides authoritative information for public health decision-making in emergencies, with responsibility for identifying new public health events, assessing risks to public health, conducting epidemiological surveillance and field investigations, monitoring public health ...
In times of crisis, whether due to disasters, armed conflicts, or other health emergencies, the timely and well-coordinated evacuation of patients is a critical component of emergency response. Past emergencies have demonstrated the urgent need for standardized approaches to both pre-hospital support for medical evacuation (medevac) and medevac operations themselves. The absence of clear ...
National health emergency alert and response framework This multi-hazard Health Emergency Alert and Response Framework provides guidance for coordinating emergency response in countries, under the global Health...
Intensifying support to earthquake–hit Myanmar, the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided nearly 100 tons of medicines, medical devices and tents so far, and is assisting in coordination and deployment of emergency medical teams on the ground to meet the growing and evolving health needs of the nearly 12.9 million people in need of humanitarian health assistance.Photo credit - WHO ...
WHO's health emergency appeal identifies the critical priorities and resources required to address 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 Grade 3 crises – the most severe. These emergencies demand a coordinated, well-resourced global response to save lives, protect health, and restore hope to communities on the brink.
What sort of supplies are in a standard emergency health kit? WHO has standardized medicines and medical supplies needed in emergencies to allow swift, efficient and effective response to the need for medicines and medical supplies.
Use the WHO emergency communications network (ECN) Trained emergency communications experts can be deployed to provide on-site communication assistance during humanitarian crises and public health emergencies.
In December 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a national outbreak of mpox and an incident management system has been in place since February 2023, based on the increasing number of reported cases. Since September 2023, an outbreak of mpox in South Kivu province has continued to spread within the province and recently to neighbouring North Kivu, driven by sexual contact ...
