Assessing resilience of a health system is difficult but necessary to prepare for the next crisis

Anna Sagan; Steve Thomas; Erin Webb; Martin McKee

doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-073721

Assessing resilience of a health system is difficult but necessary to prepare for the next crisis

BMJ. 2023 Jul 4:382:e073721. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-073721.

Authors

Anna Sagan^{1

2

3}, Steve Thomas⁴, Erin Webb^{5

6}, Martin McKee^{5

3}

Affiliations

¹ European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London, UK a.sagan@lse.ac.uk.
² London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
³ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ Centre for Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London, UK.
⁶ Department of Health Care Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Health systems responses to covid-19 can help to identify factors within and outside of the health system that affect its resilience to shocks, suggest Anna Sagan and colleagues

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care*
Government Programs*
Humans