Pandemic-proof cities: creating resilient health-care systems to prevent, prepare for and respond to future health shocks

Kent, Ray, Atkinson, Paul ORCID: 0000-0001-8740-6561 and Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place Pandemic-proof cities: creating resilient health-care systems to prevent, prepare for and respond to future health shocks. [Report]

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Abstract

Key takeaways 1. An effective response to emerging and endemic infectious disease lies in creating and maintaining a resilient public health-care system. 2. Building such a system on the scale of a city or city-region necessitates that all of the key actors come together in ‘peacetime’ to design and rehearse an integrated, multipartner response to emerging infections that can be activated during ‘wartime’. 3. Resilience planning requires the participation of community representatives as well as healthcare experts, to explore ways of integrating the unique knowledge possessed by each set of actors. 4. Regular stress-testing and updating of resilience plans is essential. This can be carried out by running simulation exercises at a sub-national level and encouraging the sharing of knowledge between cities and city-regions. 5. Local resilience plans should be benchmarked against international good practice, for example through the use of a resilience index consisting of key indicators.

Item Type:	Report
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2024 14:25
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2024 14:25
DOI:	10.17638/03172459
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3172459