Preparing Health Systems for Shocks
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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This report focuses on Japan’s
experiences to showcase how the country incrementally
strengthened the resilience of its health system by
enhancing its capacity to prepare for, respond to, and
recover from crises, drawing valuable lessons from its
experience of major earthquakes, floods, and infectious
disease outbreaks. This report emphasizes the country’s
efforts, focused on the intersection of health systems,
disaster risk management, and quality infrastructure,
integrating these sectors through the development of key
regulations, governance mechanisms, and capacity building
for all stakeholders involved in strengthening the health
system's ability to withstand shocks. It aims to share
these historical experiences and early lessons learned from
the COVID-19 pandemic with public sector decision-makers and
practitioners elsewhere who face similar challenges,
providing practical reference material to inform and inspire
shock-resilient policy reforms and infrastructure
investments. Today more than ever, the resilience of health
systems is crucial to provide lifesaving care during crises
such as pandemics, disasters, and other major shocks, while
still remaining a highly challenging proposition, as the
COVID-19 pandemic reminded us.
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HEALTH SYSTEM RESILIENCE, QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE, DISASTER MEDICINE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL