Measuring the resilience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a focus on community resilience.

Health Research Policy and Systems
Sudip Bhandari, O Alonge

Abstract

The concept of community resilience has gained considerable attention in the global health discussions since the Ebola outbreak of West Africa in 2014-2015. However, there are no measurement models to quantify community resilience. Without measurement models, it is unclear how to test strategies for building community resilience or to describe their likely intended and unintended results and their impact on health outcomes. We propose a measurement model for community resilience with relevant constructs and indicators to measure these constructs. We conducted a scoping review, systematically searching, screening and selecting relevant articles from two bibliographic databases (PUBMED and Google Scholar) for literature using search terms such as "resilience", "community resilience" and "health systems resilience". We screened 500 papers, then completed a full text review of 112 identified as relevant based on their title and abstract. A total of 27 papers and reports were retained for analysis. We then aggregated and synthesised the various definitions of community resilience and the frameworks for understanding these definitions. We identified key constructs from these frameworks and organised these constructs into domains and ...Continue Reading

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