Coordination of health-service provision in humanitarian crises: a systematic review of suggested models

National and international humanitarian relief organisations play an important part in humanitarian crises. There is evidence of lack of coordination between organisations providing health services in public health emergencies. Our objective was to identify published models of coordination between organisations funding or delivering health services in situations of humanitarian crisis worldwide. This systematic review identified five models of coordination of delivering health services: the health cluster approach (with 15 case studies), the “who is where, when, doing what” mapping tool (4Ws; four case studies), the sphere project model (two case studies), the 5×5 model (one case study), and the model of information coordination (one case study).

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Lotfi T, Bou-Karroum L, Darzi A, Hajjar R, El Rahyel A, El-Eid J. Coordination of health-service provision in humanitarian crises: a systematic review of suggested models. Lancet. 390(S37). doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32088-3