SHCC Data: Attacks on Health Care Events from News Briefs

Insecurity Insight manages this collection of agency- and open-source events on violence against or obstruction of health care. The data is published in the Attacks on Health Care News Brief and used for the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition's annual reporting. Last updated on 2026-05-26, the dataset is available under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Track patterns of violence against healthcare workers based on reported events.
• Analyze the types of obstructions faced by medical facilities in conflict zones.
• Generate reports on the frequency and nature of attacks on health care for advocacy purposes.
• Cross-reference open-source and agency-reported incidents for verification.

Strengths

• Managed by a specialized organization (Insecurity Insight) focused on conflict data.
• Derived from structured reporting via the Attacks on Health Care News Brief.
• Explicitly licensed for sharing and adaptation under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Insecurity Insight (SHCC member).

Collection Method

Agency- and open-source events compiled for the Attacks on Health Care News Brief.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 20:02:01.618817; freshness should be verified.