Key ideas and future directions for health system resilience

Dell D. Saulnier and Karl Blanchet

Chapter 2 in Handbook of Health System Resilience, 2024, pp 13-28 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter describes the main concepts and common theories of health system resilience. The chapter introduces the origins of resilience as a concept, including the resilience of complex adaptive systems, and describes the major milestones and debates as resilience developed in the field of health systems. The chapter also describes the current different perspectives of resilience as a process, an ability, and an outcome, and the difficulties associated with researching resilience from each perspective, including measuring resilience. Finally, the chapter summarizes current gaps and opportunities for health system resilience research.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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