Understanding fragility: implications for global health research and practice.

ABSTRACT: Advances in population health outcomes risk being slowed-and potentially reversed-by a range of threats increasingly presented as 'fragility'. Widely used and critiqued within the development arena, the concept is increasingly used in the field of global health, where its relationship to population health, health service delivery, access and utilization is poorly specified. We present the first scoping review seeking to clarify the meaning, definitions and applications of the term in the global health literature. Adopting the theoretical framework of concept analysis, 10 bibliographic and grey literature sources, and five key journals, were searched to retrieve documents relating to fragility and health. Reviewers screened titles and abstracts and retained documents applying the term fragi

SUBMITTER: Diaconu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050687 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature