Research Snapshot: What makes a health system resilient?
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March
2020
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This document provides a two-page summary of the research undertaken as part of the R2HC-funded study Systems Resilience in UNRWA Health Provision to Palestine Refugees Displaced by Syria Crisis.
This research study, conducted in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, found three capacities which can contribute to a health systems resilience:
• Absorption: addressing needs with available resources
• Adaptation: adjusting how resources are utilised and ensuring multiple pathways of action
• Transformation: creating fundamentally new services/systems of operation in response to shocks and stressors.
This Snapshot summarises:
- Background to the research and how the research was conducted,
- Key findings,
- Implications for humanitarian practitioners and policymakers,
- Recommendations,
- Further reading.
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