EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Robust health security through the building of a resilient health system in the ASEAN region is needed to overcome the vulnerability to public health emergencies due to infectious diseases and the impact of climate change to health.
- Ensuring resilient health systems across ASEAN Member States requires the improvement of several health and non-health factors: WHO’s health system building blocks (i.e., service delivery, human resources for health, health information system, essential medical products and technology, financing, and leadership and governance), Universal Health Coverage, social determinants of health for an enabling environment, food security, as well as climate-resilient infrastructure and ecosystem.
- While initiatives aligned with these factors have been established in ASEAN, policies that specifically address the development of resilient health systems are still scarce.
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
- Promoting the awareness and understanding of resilient health systems — such as the technicalities of resilient health systems and their linkages with other public health programmes — and its implementation in the ASEAN region.
- Promoting supply chain connectivity and integrating the humanitarian assistance track with the national health track in ASEAN Member States may prove to be beneficial in implementing a supply chain approach to build resilient health systems.
- Strengthen primary health care services by integrating climate and disaster health management initiatives.
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