Health systems resilience
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The growing burden of disease, ageing populations and the impact of environmental crises on health are straining health systems globally. As a result, healthcare is becoming more fragmented, reactive and reliant on emergency services and hospital care. Millions are without timely, effective and integrated diagnosis and treatment today, and health systems are unable to plan for future shocks and crises.
Our approach to health systems resilience
To build resilient and sustainable health systems, AstraZeneca partners with health system stakeholders to transform care by providing evidence-based recommendations and co-creating solutions that help to reduce disease progression, hospital admissions, and premature deaths globally. We do this through:
Policy change
We advocate for evidence-based policy change at the health system level through impactful public-private-partnerships that harness cross-sectoral expertise and resources at global and local levels.
Practice change
We partner with healthcare providers locally and leverage innovative technologies to act earlier to prevent, detect and diagnose disease, enabling patients to access guideline-based care. This can save lives, as well as protect healthcare resources and reduces the impact of the delivery of care on the planet.
Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR)
An example of collaboration in practice is the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR). Together with the London School of Economist (LSE) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), AstraZeneca established PHSSR as a non-profit, multi-sector, global collaboration focused on policy change to improve global health, by building more sustainable and resilience health systems.
The public-private collaboration is now active in more than 30 countries, and has published more than 30 reports with robust, evidence-based recommendations for policy change. Most recently, the PHSSR published a report, providing several long-term governance strategies, resource allocation and transparency recommendations based on country-level research.
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Veeva ID: Z4-74571
Date of preparation: May 2025