Essential Health Service Guidance Note: How to prioritize and plan essential health services during COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings

Author: Global Health Cluster, READY

In 2020, the Global Health Cluster and partners developed the ‘Essential Health Service Guidance Note: How to prioritize and plan essential health services during COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings’ to help health clusters and partners utilize a systematic approach to prioritizing, maintaining and adapting essential health services should they be unable to continue providing the usual package of services safely. This includes anticipating non-COVID-19 health needs resulting from the crisis, impacts due to the temporary suspension of essential health services or other factors that may increase the risk of excess mortality and morbidity.

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This website is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of READY and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Led by Save the Children, the READY initiative is implemented in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, UK-Med, and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. READY is augmenting global capacity for non-governmental organizations to respond to large-scale infectious disease outbreaks.