On the resilience of health systems: A methodological exploration across countries in the WHO African Region.

ABSTRACT: The need for resilient health systems is recognized as important for the attainment of health outcomes, given the current shocks to health services. Resilience has been defined as the capacity to "prepare and effectively respond to crises; maintain core functions; and, informed by lessons learnt, reorganize if conditions require it". There is however a recognized dichotomy between its conceptualization in literature, and its application in practice. We propose two mutually reinforcing categories of resilience, representing resilience targeted at potentially known shocks, and the inherent health system resilience, needed to respond to unpredictable shock events. We determined capacities for each of these categories, and explored this methodological proposition by computing country-specific

SUBMITTER: Karamagi HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820618 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature