Critiquing the concept of health system resilience

Stephanie M. Topp

Chapter 5 in Handbook of Health System Resilience, 2024, pp 61-71 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores and critiques the ways in which the concept of health systems resilience has been defined (as an outcome versus ability), theorized (in particular in relation to power), and operationalized (as a descriptive and evaluative normative concept), in the context of health policy and systems research. Current approaches to evaluating health system resilience continue to borrow heavily from frameworks in cross-over fields of health governance, human resources for health, and health system performance research, and sometimes without clarity regarding their unique analytical value. Notwithstanding growing calls for empirical work to test and refine frameworks designed to evaluate health system resilience, this chapter argues that articulating and finding consensus acknowledging around the ontological, epistemological and resultant definitional differences of the concept is unfinished but essential work.

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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