Abstract
Issues presented by COVID-19 to community resilience are located at individual, community and system level. In this paper, we reflect on WHO Europe propositions on what makes resilient communities, and explore how communities and systems with varying capacity have responded to the pandemic by absorbing and adapting to challenges. In our research, we are seeing local responses at all three levels, which challenge current assumptions about the respective roles of citizen, local voluntary sector and state. This paper presents opportunities and challenges to translating this reactive social movement into proactive resilience-transforming change in how local systems work in the future.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | S41-S44 |
Journal | Cities and Health |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | sup1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- Community resilience
- health inequalities
- health promotion
- public health