Wiig, S and O’Hara, JK (2021) Resilient and responsive healthcare services and systems: challenges and opportunities in a changing world. BMC Health Services Research, 21 (1). 1037. ISSN 1472-6963
Abstract
Background
Resilient and responsive healthcare systems is on the agenda as ever before. COVID-19, specialization of services, resource demands, and technology development are all examples of aspects leading to adaptations among stakeholders at different system levels whilst also attempting to maintain high service quality and safety. This commentary sets the scene for a journal collection on Resilient and responsive health systems in a changing world. The commentary aims to outline main challenges and opportunities in resilient healthcare theory and practice globally, as a backdrop for contributions to the collection.
Main text
Some of the main challenges in this field relate to a myriad of definitions and approaches to resilience in healthcare, and a lack of studies having multilevel perspectives. Also, the role of patients, families, and the public in resilient and responsive healthcare systems is under researched. By flipping the coin, this illustrates opportunities for research and practice and raise key issues that future resilience research should pay attention to. The potential of combining theoretical lenses from different resilience traditions, involvement of multiple stakeholders in co-creating research and practice improvement, and modelling and visualizing resilient performance are all opportunities to learn more about how healthcare succeeds under stress and normal operations.
Conclusion
A wide understanding of resilience and responsiveness is needed to support planning and preparation for future disasters and for handling the routine small-scale adaptation. This collection welcomes systematic reviews, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research on the topic of resilience and responsiveness in all areas of the health system.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s). 2021. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Resilient healthcare, Health systems resilience, Adaptive capacity, Learning, Patient safety, Quality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number NIHR National Inst Health Research R&D ARC M20086 Research Council of Norway COVCOM TMS2020TMT10 NIHR National Inst Health Research NIHR128070 NIHR National Inst Health Research RP-PG-1214-20017 NIHR National Inst Health Research HS&DR Project 18/10/02 NIHR National Inst Health Research M24387 NIHR National Inst Health Research NIHR201349 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2021 12:25 |
Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2021 12:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BMC |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s12913-021-07087-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180528 |