Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program
This debate paper defines healthcare resilience as the capacity to adapt to challenges and changes at different system levels, to maintain high quality care and proposes a working definition of healthcare resilience that underpins the international RiH research programme.
Abstract
The RiH research program is exploring resilience as a multi-level phenomenon and considers adaptive capacity to change as a foundation for high quality care. We, therefore, define healthcare resilience as: the capacity to adapt to challenges and changes at different system levels, to maintain high quality care. This working definition of resilience is intended to be comprehensible and applicable regardless of the level of analysis or type of system component under investigation.