Shifting the paradigm: using disease outbreaks to build resilient health systems.
Durski KN, Osterholm M, Majumdar SS, Nilles E, Bausch DG, Atun R
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Abstract
► Disease outbreaks and health emergencies can
push health systems to a breaking point, especially
fragile systems.
► Building resilient and responsive health systems is
an imperative for the global health community and
there is an important opportunity to address health
systems strengthening activities during outbreak
response.
► The resources dedicated to outbreaks create organisational infrastructure, capacity and networks
that can be leveraged to simultaneously strengthen
health systems.
► It is necessary to shift the current paradigm of managing outbreaks to include health system strengthening as a critical component of the response. We
identify 10 activities that could be implemented
during health emergencies to achieve this goal.
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