Interrogating resilience in health systems development

Health systems strengthening, universal health coverage, health security and resilience.

Interrogating inclusive development in India's transition process.

This paper makes two related contributions. First, the dual economic structure underlying development is shown as producing a distinct conception of other comprising of a devalued third world which is foregrounded and world of the third which is excluded. This dyad of inclusion-exclusion of other is produced in relation to the centers of capitalism and modernism. The category of third world hel...

thinking shift on health systems: from blueprint health programmes towards resilience of health systems; comment on “constraints to applying systems thinking concepts in health systems: a regional perspective from surveying stakeholders in eastern mediterranean countries”

international health is still highly dominated by equilibrium approaches. the emergence of systems thinking in international health provides a great avenue to develop innovative health interventions adapted to changing contexts. the public health community, nevertheless, has the responsibility to translate concepts related to systems thinking and complexity into concrete research methods and in...

Resilience Processes in Development

The study of resilience in development has overturned many negative assumptions and deficit-focused models about children growing up under the threat of disadvantage and adversity. The most surprising conclusion emerging from studies of these children is the ordinariness of resilience. An examination of converging findings from variable-focused and person-focused investigations of these phenome...

Health Systems Development in Asia:

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. In 1977, the World Health Assembly adopted the goal of “Health for All” and that one of the major social goals of governments should be the attainment by all people of the world a level of health that would permit them to lead a sociall...