Attacks on Health Care: Global Security Events Categorized by Country

Insecurity Insight provides this dataset of agency-reported and open-source security incidents involving attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel. The data is categorized by country and derived from the Attacks on Health Care News Brief, with updates recorded through March 2026. It serves as a specialized monitoring tool for humanitarian organizations and researchers tracking violence against medical services in conflict zones.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of healthcare-related violence by filtering the country category
• Correlating conflict intensity with health facility attacks using event descriptions
• Identifying specific threats to medical personnel based on news brief event summaries

Strengths

• Categorized by country for comparative geographic analysis
• Aggregates both agency-specific and open-source intelligence
• Maintained by Insecurity Insight, a specialist organization in conflict data

Limitations

• Reporting bias may exist in regions with restricted media or limited humanitarian agency presence
• Specific column headers and data types are not explicitly listed in the metadata
• Relies on open-source verification which may vary in detail by region

Provenance

Source

Insecurity Insight

Collection Method

Aggregation of agency reports and open-source news monitoring

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Global