Attacks on Health Facilities
Violence against hospitals, health workers, patients, and medical transport disrupts essential care in conflicts and emergencies. The supplied evidence reports hundreds to more than a thousand attacks annually and substantial direct casualties, but does not establish a comprehensive global impact or attributable economic cost.
Severity score
40.6
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
36Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
55People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
38Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
72Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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