‘We are all vulnerable, we are all fragile’: COVID-19 as opportunity for, or constraint on, health service resilience in Colombia?

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One managerial narrative describes COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in health system planning and delivery. Analysing 33 interviews with national stakeholders in Colombia´s health system, this paper argues that an ‘innovation’ narrative provides a partial account of managerial responses to COVID-19. COVID-19 triggered positive and negative effects on adaptive resilience: as mirror for recognizing problems predating the pandemic; as accelerator of service changes; as source of solidarity among professional groups; as workforce trauma; and as disruptor of adjacent improvement activity. The paper concludes that multi-level effects of adaptive resilience, and costs of its practice, need to be recognized.

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Turner, S. (2023). ‘We are all vulnerable, we are all fragile’: COVID-19 as opportunity for, or constraint on, health service resilience in Colombia? Public Management Review, 25(10), 1881–1902. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2052944

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