Disaster management and resilience in healthcare

This article explores resilience, complexity thinking, disaster management, and healthcare systems. It emphasizes the importance of resilience in healthcare systems and the need to prioritize public health in pandemic responses. The Resilience Assessment Guide is recommended as a tool for disaster management. Two studies are discussed: an international survey on COVID-19 measures taken by different countries and the 40HS, C-19 study, which highlights the significance of broad-based testing in managing the pandemic. The findings indicate that early stringency measures and pre-existing government capacity alone are insufficient for effective pandemic management.