The criteria for determining the level of certainty of an attack is based on the sources of information available to triangulate the data.ĭatabase: Reported attacks on health care are entered in the SSA web-enabled secure global database. Any report assigned the level “rumour” is not published on the SSA dashboard. There are four levels of confidence: “rumour”, “possible”, “probable”, and “confirmed”. To maintain accuracy of WHO-reported data, the SSA verification method assigns increasing levels of certainty based on the amount of data that is available and the supporting evidence. The level of certainty applies to whether the attack occurred, but does NOT apply to the detailed data about the attack. The nature and types of attacks vary across contexts and can range from violence with heavy weapons to psychological threats or intimidation.Įach reported attack is assigned a level of certainty by a designated WHO staff member which conveys a level of confidence that the reported attack has occurred. When no country is selected, this chart reflects global numbers.ĭefinition: WHO defines an attack on health care as any act of verbal or physical violence or obstruction or threat of violence that interferes with the availability, access and delivery of curative and/or preventive health services during emergencies. One attack can be classified under multiple types.Īnnual data: The annual data chart is linked to the country filter selected by the user and does not take into account selected date ranger nor selected types of attacks. Number of attacks by type: This data represents the number of attacks that involved each type of attack.

All attacks from the selected data range can be viewed in full using the button on the bottom right of the table. Recently reported attacks: Users can access the full report by clicking on the Attack ID of interest.

For example, one attack could have an impact on patients, transports and supplies at the same time. It does not indicate the total number of resources that were attacked.

Impact: This data represents the number of attacks in which each health resource was impacted. Search bar: The SSA dashboard’s search bar allows the user to filter global data by date range, country or territory and type of attacks.

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