Online Chapter - Understanding the Resilience of Health Systems

A chapter from the book 'Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration' - globally, displacement is now at the highest level ever recorded with 68.5 million people being forcibly displaced due to violence, political instability or poor economic conditions. Migration towards neighbouring countries or more distant high-income settings in Europe is creating new challenges for national health systems. This chapter explores health systems resilience, i.e. the capacity of health systems to adapt and transform themselves in response to challenges and offers reflections and a new conceptual framework on resilience based on systems thinking and complexity theories.