Health systems resilience: is it time to revisit resilience after COVID-19?

The concept of health system resilience has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even well-established health systems, considered resilient, collapsed during the pandemic. To revisit the concept of resilience two years and a half after the initial impact of COVID-19, we conducted a qualitative...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2023-03, Vol.320, p.115716-115716, Article 115716
Main Authors: Paschoalotto, Marco Antonio Catussi, Lazzari, Eduardo Alves, Rocha, Rudi, Massuda, Adriano, Castro, Marcia C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Covid-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Developing Countries
Framework
Government Programs
Health system resilience
Health systems
Humans
Implementation
Organizations
Pandemics
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Summary:The concept of health system resilience has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even well-established health systems, considered resilient, collapsed during the pandemic. To revisit the concept of resilience two years and a half after the initial impact of COVID-19, we conducted a qualitative study with 26 international experts in health systems to explore their views on concepts, stages, analytical frameworks, and implementation from a comparative perspective of high- and low-and-middle-income countries (HICs and LMICs). The interview guide was informed by a comprehensive literature review, and all interviewees had practice and academic expertise in some of the largest health systems in the world. Results show that the pandemic did modify experts' views on various aspects of health system resilience, which we summarize and propose as refinements to the current understanding of health systems resilience. •Community participation and context adaptation are critical to health system resilience.•A novel adaptive and interactive health system resilience model is proposed.•Technology and information systems are connecting links of health system resilience.•Resilience on fragmented health systems remains a knowledge gap.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115716