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Preventive medicine reports
covid19 pandemic violence targeting healthcare reportedly increased attacks healthcare severely hamper public health response pandemic descriptive data analysis attacks may helpful develop prevention mitigation strategies study aimed investigate trends regarding covid19related attacks healthcare january 2020 january 2023 covid19related incidents occurring january 2020 january 2023 extracted safeguarding health conflict coalition database screened eligibility included incidents linked covid19 health measures attacks directly interfering covid19 healthcare including conflictrelated attacks data collected per incident included temporal factors country setting attack weapon type perpetrator motive number healthcare workers hcws killed injured kidnapped health facility damage study identified 255 covid19related attacks healthcare 18 hcws killed 147 hcws injured 86 facilities damaged highest attack frequency reported beginning pandemic predominantly concerned stigmarelated attacks healthcare reported incidents 2021 included attacks targeting vaccination campaigns well conflictrelated attacks interfering covid19 healthcare covid19related attacks healthcare occurred heterogeneous contexts throughout pandemic due underreporting data presented minimum estimate actual magnitude violence findings study emphasize importance public education campaigns improved coordination healthcare organizations law enforcement possible need bolster security medical facilities health workers