Evaluation of health system resilience in 60 countries based on their responses to COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world, and many national health systems faced serious challenges. To improve future public health responses, it's necessary to evaluate the performance of each country's health system.

Methods

We developed a resilience evaluation system for national health systems based on their responses to COVID-19 using four resilience dimensions: government governance and prevention, health financing, health service provision, and health workers. We determined the weight of each index by combining the three-scale and entropy-weight methods. Then, based on data from 2020, we used the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to rank the health system resilience of 60 countries, and then used hier

SUBMITTER: Zhao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9870292 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature