Resilience and Recurrent Hazard: A Case Study of Healthcare Systems

The objective of this chapter is to study the resilience of health care systems and to provide a snapshot of the resilience of several countries' health care systems. A brief summary is provided of literature covering resilience assessment in general, and health care systems resilience in particular. Unlike traditional resilience models in which recovery is almost monotonic, the pandemic hazard COVID-19 has no effective recovery treatment and has shown recurrence after some recovery had occurred. Proposed generic methods for quantifying resilience are presented and discussed. A case study of resilience assessments of health care systems under the COVID-19 hazard scenario is included.