Resilient Health Systems

What We Know; What We Should Do

Federico Lega, Giada Carola Castellini

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781802622751
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has strained health systems worldwide. Despite several measures adopted, includingthe deployment of emergency funds to sustain health service transformations and investment in vaccine development, the crisis has taken over a year to be controlled. The consequences are still affecting the capacity and capabilities of health systems.

In light of the ongoing pandemic, this book explores the factors determining the ability of health systems to cope with and recover from a crisis, and therefore their level of resilience. The term resilience has gained momentum in health systems research, with several scholars contributing to the definition of the concept. Providing a comprehensivehealth system resilience agenda, policy-makers, public health specialists, health managers, scholars and practitioners will find in this work both a grounded framework for the assessment of the level of resilience of healthcare systems and organizations, and specific actionable changes that should be pursued to consolidate and improve that level of resilience.

Ultimately, this workidentifies desirable paths of actionthrough the investigation of real-world casesto improve health systems and organizationscapacity and capability to face anyfuture dramaticcrisis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• About the Authors
• Foreword
• 1. If You Stay Ready, You Won’t Have to Get Ready
• 2. Naming and Framing Health System Resilience
• 3. Key Ingredients for a Resilient Health System
• 4. A Framework for Action
• 5. Case Study: Lessons from the Italian Health System
• 6. Making Things Happen
• References
• Index