Resilient health systems for already resilient countries? Pandemic discourses in the post-COVID-19 era

Arroyo-Laguna J. · Ciencia e Saude Coletiva (2023) · DOI: 10.1590/1413-812320232810.10182023en

Resumen

This study aimed to reconstruct and analyze the discourses of the pandemic in the pos-t-COVID-19 era. The methodology was based on a critical review of the scientific literature on the pandemic, selecting 80 non-biomedical, clinical, or pharmacological articles published in jour-nals indexed in Scopus or Web of Science from a sample of the 500 most cited scientific articles on the pandemic in Google Scholar. The theoretical approach was based on the debates on predicta-bility, unpredictability, determination, and inde-terminacy in the health and social sciences. As a result, six theses on the pandemic were identified and analyzed: a) the thesis of the unpredictability of pandemics; b) the thesis of pandemic denial; c) the thesis of the pandemic as a failure in predic-tability systems; d) the thesis of the prevention of catastrophic events with timely interventions; e) the thesis of the structural postponement of pre-dictive care by non-developed countries; and f) the environmentalist-health thesis, of foreseeing a critical phase for the planet and humanity. We concluded on the limits of resilience as the center in preparing Latin American health systems in the post-pandemic.

Instituciones: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola