Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems: Towards a New Conceptual Framework

The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we al...

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Autores principales: Blanchet, Karl, Nam, Sara L., Ramalingam, Ben, Pozo-Martin, Francisco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28812842
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.36
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description The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on governance of resilience based on systems thinking and complexity theories. In this paper, we see resilience of a health system as its capacity to absorb, adapt and transform when exposed to a shock such as a pandemic, natural disaster or armed conflict and still retain the same control over its structure and functions.
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spelling pubmed-55532112017-08-21 Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems: Towards a New Conceptual Framework Blanchet, Karl Nam, Sara L. Ramalingam, Ben Pozo-Martin, Francisco Int J Health Policy Manag Perspective The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on governance of resilience based on systems thinking and complexity theories. In this paper, we see resilience of a health system as its capacity to absorb, adapt and transform when exposed to a shock such as a pandemic, natural disaster or armed conflict and still retain the same control over its structure and functions. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5553211/ /pubmed/28812842 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.36 Text en © 2017 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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