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

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          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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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Int J Health Policy Manag
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Int J Health Policy Manag
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Kerman University of Medical Sciences
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Int J Health Policy Manag
                Title: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
                Publisher: Kerman University of Medical Sciences
                ISSN (Electronic): 2322-5939
                Publication date Collection: August 2017
                Publication date (Electronic): 04 April 2017
                Volume: 6
                Issue: 8
                Pages: 431-435
                Affiliations
                1Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
                2Options Consultancy Services Ltd, London, UK.
                3Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.
                Author notes
                [* ] Correspondence to: Karl Blanchet karl.blanchet@ 123456lshtm.ac.uk
                Article
                DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.36
                PMC ID: 5553211
                PubMed ID: 28812842
                SO-VID: 48108179-4fc2-457e-8aee-cdb71b1509eb
                Copyright © © 2017 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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                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.

                History
                Date received : 04 October 2016
                Date accepted : 13 March 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 2, References: 53, Pages: 5
                Categories
                Subject: Perspective

                Keywords: resilience,health systems,governance,management,complexity
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                Keywords: resilience, health systems, governance, management, complexity

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