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.
The ERF provides WHO staff with essential guidance on how the Organization manages the assessment, grading and response to public health events and emergencies with health consequences, in support of Member States and affected communities.
Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies.
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...
Emergency Care Toolkit Overview The WHO Emergency Care Toolkit (ECT) is an open access bundle of interventions, developed to be implemented in emergency units within hospitals, particularly in resource limited settings. The main aim of the ECT is to support systematic care of the acutely ill and injured within hospitals.
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 ...
The health emergencies list below details the disease outbreaks, environmental disasters and other humanitarian crises in which WHO has played or is still playing an essential role in protecting health.
Having achieved classification in 2019, FEMAT demonstrated its continued compliance with global standards, showing that the team remains capable of providing medical surge support and quality emergency care during a disaster outbreak. Reclassifications are undertaken every 5 years after initial attainment to confirm continued alignment with WHO’s EMT principles and minimum standards.
Increasingly intense and prolonged humanitarian crises require urgent action to protect the world’s most vulnerable. In 2025, an estimated 305 million people will require humanitarian assistance. The growing scale of global challenges – such as the climate crisis, conflict, and infectious disease outbreaks – is outpacing available resources.
The WHO MCM Course is a learning program on mass casualty preparedness and response for emergency unit based clinical providers, managers, and logistics and administrative staff. The course is based on the principles of mass casualty management and emphasizes the critical role of the emergency unit in enhancing patient outcomes. The MCM course highlights preparedness activities, operational ...
