What quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to measure health-related community resilience at a national and local level?
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Publisher | : World Health Organization |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9289053623 |
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Community resilience is the ability of communities and groups to adapt and thrive in response to external stressors. Building resilient communities as a strategy for population health requires assessment of personal and collective capacities alongside vulnerabilities. This report examines what quantitative and qualitative methods can be used to measure health-related community resilience at national and local levels. Evidence from a rapid review of 33 studies highlighted various methodological challenges. Measurement strategies mostly drawn from the field of community disaster resilience include population-level frameworks mixed methods assessment tools and qualitative and participatory case studies. The main conclusions are that measurement of health-related community resilience should cover multiple domains (economic social health skills political and environment) and consider local context and assets. Three stages of policy development are suggested: selection of a set of key indicators to collect data on community resilience creation of a learning network to share knowledge and tools and development of a comprehensive measurement framework.