Health Cluster Guide: A practical guide for country-level implementation of the Health Cluster

Author(s)
WHO
Publication language
English
Pages
180pp
Date published
01 Jun 2009
Publisher
WHO
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Coordination, Cluster coordination, Health

 

This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator and
partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the
aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and disability, and restoring
the delivery of and equitable access to preventive and curative health
care as quickly as possible.
It highlights key principles of humanitarian health action and how coordination
and joint efforts among health sector actors working in partnership
can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of health interventions.
It draws on IASC and other documents but also includes lessons from
field experience.