Emergencies

General information

• World Health Day 2009
  Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies
• Q&A: What is a health kit?
• Q&As: What is the role of WHO in crises?

Multimedia

• Photo story: Meeting Haiti's changing health needs

Features

• Features: emergencies

WHO programmes and activities

• Humanitarian Health Action

Emergencies in WHO regions

• African Region
• Region of the Americas
• South-East Asia Region
• European Region
• Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Western Pacific Region

Technical information

• Crises
• Technical guidance
• Capacity building on health action in crises

Publications

• Risk reduction and emergency preparedness: WHO six-year strategy for the health sector and community capacity development
  pdf, 190kb
• Analysing disrupted health sectors: a modular manual

Related topics

• Child health
• Communicable diseases
• Essential medicines
• Surgery to meet the need
• Gender
• HIV/AIDS
• Mental health
• Migrant health
• Nutrition
• Reproductive health
• Violence and injury prevention
• Women's health