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Health and Biosecurity
NRS-H78 Maternal, newborn and child health emergencies; NRS-H79 Mental health crises
Illustrative: plants and ports, the routes between them and goods moving along; one node is disrupted and its routes stall
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Health and Society · Department of Global Health Security
Hospital safety, surge capacity, workforce, supply chains and continuity
Health systems and health care resilience covers the capacity of a health system to keep essential services running through shocks: hospital safety, surge capacity, workforce, medical supply chains, digital health and health data, health financing shocks and equity.
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Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices that can draw it, once its data and code have been checked.
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Haze, nitrogen dioxide, dust, surface heat by day and night, and where people live, over India.
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Environmental exposure, framed on India.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.
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For hospital managers, ministry planners and infrastructure analysts who must keep essential services running through a shock and show where a system will fail first.
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A health system's margin is the share of staffed beds that are empty on an ordinary day; a shock that admits patients faster than they are discharged eats that margin at a rate set by the intake rate times length of stay, and the day it reaches zero is a number a planner can compute in advance.
Sources: Kruk, Myers, Varpilah and Dahn, What is a resilient health system? Lessons from Ebola (2015); Haldane and others, Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries (2021); Little, A proof for the queuing formula L = lambda W (1961); WHO Global Health Observatory, hospital beds per 10,000 population (2026-10-17).
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Health and its partners
Health gives workforce for operations to infrastructure (0.3), farm labour to food (0.3) and utility workforce to water (0.2).
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nexustandards.com/health · 6 taught
NRS-H78 Maternal, newborn and child health emergencies; NRS-H79 Mental health crises
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| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 3 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
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Start with World Health Organization, then Kruk, then Blanchet.
Key terms
The ability of a health system to expand services quickly during a sudden rise in demand.
A tool that assesses whether a hospital is likely to keep functioning in an emergency.
The services a health system must maintain in all circumstances.
Access for all people to the health services they need without financial hardship.
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