Emergency care - World Health Organization (WHO)
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.
World Health Organization Emergencies Programme
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 - World Health Organization (WHO)
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.
Emergencies: WHO Health emergency kits
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.
WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care: approach to the acutely ill and injured
Overview Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access training course for first contact healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources. Integrating the guidance from WHO Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT ...
WHO scales up emergency response in earthquake–hit Myanmar, provides ...
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 2025
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.
Emergency Care Saves Lives
Emergency care is required to respond to a wide range of conditions in children and adults – including injuries, infections, heart attacks and strokes, asthma and complications of pregnancy. Emergency care providers save lives. Yet in resource-limited settings, care is often compromised by a lack of training.
Prehospital Toolkit - World Health Organization (WHO)
Prehospital emergency care is a key component of the health care system. Strengthening prehospital care can help address a wide range of conditions across the life course, including injury, complications of pregnancy, exacerbations of non-communicable diseases, acute infections and sepsis.
Classification and minimum standards for emergency medical teams
This publication serves as a practical guide for teams and aims to compliment emergency response systems, fostering seamless collaboration with all emergency response actors and networks. Over the next few years, I look forward to seeing an increase in national and international EMTs that meet these standards and continue to serve as essential components of a country's emergency preparedness ...
