We need a combination of approaches to evaluate health system resilience: comment on "Re-evaluating our knowledge of health system resilience during COVID-19: lessons from the first two years of the pandemic"

Zimmermann, Julia, Karanikolos, Marina, Cylus, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-8269-1578 and McKee, Martin (2024) We need a combination of approaches to evaluate health system resilience: comment on "Re-evaluating our knowledge of health system resilience during COVID-19: lessons from the first two years of the pandemic". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 13 (1). ISSN 2322-5939

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Abstract

Health system resilience has become a desirable health system attribute in the current permacrisis environment. The article by Saulnier and colleagues reviews the literature on health system resilience and refines the concept, pinpointing dimensions of resilience governance that have not reached consensus, or that are missing from the literature. In this commentary we complement the findings by discussing different conceptual frameworks for understanding resilience and introducing resilience testing, a method to assess health system resilience using a hypothetical shock scenario. Resilience testing is a mixed-methods approach that combines a review of existing data with a structured workshop, where health system experts collaboratively assess the resilience of their health system. The new method is proposed as a tool for policy-making, as the results can identify attributes of the current health system that may hinder or boost a resilient response to the next crisis.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.ijhpm.com/
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	European Observatory on Health Systems
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2024 08:06
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2024 17:48
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124611

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