Abstract

Adaptive capacity is a critical component of building resilience in healthcare. Adaptive capacity comprises the ability of a system to cope with and adapt to disturbances. However, "shocks", such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, can potentially exceed critical adaptation thresholds and lead to systemic collapse. To effectively manage healthcare systems during periods of crises, both adaptive and transformative changes are necessary. This commentary discusses adaptation and transformation as two complementary, integral components of resilience and applies them to healthcare. We treat resilience as an emergent property of complex systems that accounts for multiple, often disparately distinct regimes in which multiple processes (e.g., adaptation, recovery) are subsumed and operate. We argue that Convergence Mental Health and other transdisciplinary paradigms such as Brain Capital and One Health can facilitate resilience planning and management in healthcare systems.

Keywords

Resilience; Adaptation; Transformation; COVID-19; Health; Health Care; Health Policy; Mental Disorders; Mental Health; Neuroscience; Psychiatry

Published in

International Journal of Health Policy and Management
2022, Volume: 11, number: 9, pages: 1949-1952
Publisher: KERMAN UNIV MEDICAL SCIENCES

SLU Authors

• Angeler, David

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Deakin University
  • The PRODEO Institute

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG3 Good health and well-being


UKÄ Subject classification

Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy


Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7043

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/116387