What quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to measure health-related community resilience at a national and local level?

Download or read book What quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to measure health-related community resilience at a national and local level? written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.