The Frontline Scorecard
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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Health care systems are at the
frontline of delivering critical care during emergencies,
mitigating illnesses and deaths. Yet many countries struggle
to meet even routine demands for health care. Climate
change, disasters, pandemics, and demographic changes are
bound to increase pressures on already strained health
systems (Rentschler et al. 2021). Preparing and equipping
health systems to adequately respond to crises are vital to
ensure sustained access to health services and to provide
reliable essential health care that protects people’s
well-being. Having a robust assessment of their country’s
health system’s climate and disaster risk management (CDRM)
capabilities allows policy makers to make these systems more
resilient against shocks. This policy note introduces the
Frontline Scorecard, a new rapid diagnostic tool that
decision makers can use to conduct a high-level assessment
of the CDRM capabilities of their health system, and
illustrates its application in a case-study country, Belize.
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HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, CRITICAL CARE, NATURAL HAZARDS, CLIMATE CHANGE, DISASTER RISK EXPOSURE, GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, SDG 3