Metrics and indicators used to assess health system resilience in response to shocks to health systems in high income countries-A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Health system resilience has never been more important than with the COVID-19 pandemic. There is need to identify feasible measures of resilience, potential strategies to build resilience and weaknesses of health systems experiencing shocks. The purpose of this systematic review is to examine how the resilience of health systems has been measured across various health system shocks. Following PRISMA guidelines, with double screening at each stage, the review identified 3175 studies of which 68 studies were finally included for analysis. Almost half (46%) were focused on COVID-19, followed by the economic crises, disasters and previous pandemics. Over 80% of studies included quantitative metrics. The most common WHO health system functions studied were resources and service delivery. In rel

SUBMITTER: Fleming P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556803 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature