The global pool of simulation exercise materials in health emergency preparedness and response: a scoping review with a health system perspective

McDarby, Geraldine; Reynolds, Lindy; Zibwowa, Zandile; Syed, Shams; Kelley, Ed; Saikat, Sohel

SimEx are also an ideal opportunity to test preparedness of the various functions of the health system, particularly health service delivery, in response to PHEs. This would contribute to the development of strong linkages between health systems and health security sectors supporting an integrated approach towards building resilient health systems. Given the important implications health services resilience has for the protection and improvement of human life, this scoping review was undertaken to determine how the body of existing global SimEx materials considers the testing of health system resilience, together with health security preparedness, and response functions in the event of acute and/or protracted PHEs.