Building Resilient Healthcare Systems: The Role of Social Work, Administration, and Public Health Expertise

Abstract

Building resilient healthcare systems is one of the most important ways to make sure that health systems can respond effectively in times of crisis and provide essential services. The COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated vulnerabilities in healthcare systems and underlined the importance of integrated strategies that incorporate the expertise of social work, healthcare administration, and public health. It further elaborates on the different roles these fields of science can play to enhance resiliency in the healthcare system: such factors as telemedicine, community involvement, workforce resiliency, and supply chain management. It calls for health equity and shared learning among all stakeholders of the healthcare system to better recover and adjust that system. Their summation taken into consideration with experiences will make healthcare systems more responsive and sustainable to the next crises.