Health System Resilience

Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems

Karl Blanchet

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MIT Press
14 October 2025

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From a lead researcher in the field, an instructive edited collection on how to mitigate crises and stresses to ensure that the health systems we rely on continue to thrive.

From a lead researcher in the field, an instructive edited collection on how to mitigate crises and stresses to ensure that the health systems we rely on continue to thrive.

Health systems-which include, but are not limited to, health centers, hospitals, or provincial or national health systems-are adaptive complex systems that are dynamic and organic. They evolve along with their changing environments. In Health System Resilience, Karl Blanchet and other contributors build on system thinking theories and complexity science to reveal the dynamics of health systems.

The book addresses how health systems absorb shocks, adapt to those shocks, and sometimes transform because of them. Since health systems are managed by human beings (patients, clinicians, allied professionals, managers), contributors also discuss how human beings make decisions in situations of change, how they process information, and how they analyze that information to make those decisions-which, in turn, affect the functioning of health systems.

The book also takes a deep dive into the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has transformed health systems as well as how professionals or patients interact with those health systems.

A crucial resource for health service managers, policymakers, researchers, and students alike, Health System Resilience offers knowledgeable expertise as well as the latest methods and tools that can be applied to the management of health systems in times of crisis.

By: Karl Blanchet
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262550925
ISBN 10: 026255092X
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1 Complex health systems: an introduction 1.2 Addressing resilience in pluralistic health systems Part 2 Resilience of health systems during chronic challenges 2.1 The resilience of social-ecological systems 2.2 Anthropological Perspectives on Health System Resilience 2.3 Why context matters for resilient health systems 2.4 Governance and health system resilience 2.5 Unpackaging Health System Resilience for health managers in Africa Part 3 Resilience of health systems during public health emergencies 3.1 Understanding resilience in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees health response to the Syrian crisis 3.2 Othering and health system resilience 3.3 Institutional legitimacy and health system resilience in contexts of perpetual crisis Part 4 Resilience of health systems in humanitarian crises 4.1 The resilience of Senegal’s hospitals to the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic 4.2 Building climate (and crisis) resilience at the frontline 4.3 Fostering an integrated approach to build resilience to infectious diseases 4.4 Primary Health Care and Health Systems Resilience 4.5 Everyday health system resilience (EHSR) Part 5 Resilient Health Systems in Practice: Turning Theory into Action 5.1 Health system resilience challenged by a financial crisis 5.2 Health service resilience in the context of adversity 5.3 Mapping and modelling for health service resilience 5.4 Climate change and health system resilience 5.5 In need of redesign – overcoming systemic failings of the nursing home system 5.6 Monitoring Political Commitment 5.7 Measurement-Based Strategies to Achieve Resilient Health Systems

Karl Blanchet is Director of the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, which specializes in public health and health systems research in humanitarian crisis-affected and fragile states.

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