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Integrated the Medical Procedure Analyze Seismic Resilience of Healthcare System: A Critical Review from the Resilience of Healthcare System vs. Medical Demand Perspective

Table 1

Different definitions of resilience.

AuthorsDate of publicationDefinition of resilience

Holling [22]1973Resilience refers to the ability of a system to absorb, change, and perturb and to maintain a balanced state of the system
Wildavsky [23]1988Resilience refers to the ability to cope with disasters after a disaster and has the characteristics of adaptation and recovery
Mileti [24]1999Resilience refers to the ability of an area to undergo extreme natural events without catastrophic loss, damage, reduced productivity, and normal life and does not require a lot of outside assistance
Comfort [25]1999Resilience refers to the ability and action of existing resources and capacities to adapt to new situations
Adger [26]2000Resilience refers to the resilience of public infrastructure to disaster shocks
Klein et al. [16]2003Resilience is the ability to withstand the stresses of the environment
Bruneau et al. [27]2003Resilience refers to the ability of a society to mitigate the impact on the city and to cope with the impact of future disasters with the least impact on society
Walker et al. [28]2004Resilience consists of four components: range, resistance, instability, and chaos. Toughness refers to the ability of a system to absorb interference and keep its key functions, structures, and characteristics functional
Walker and Slat [29]2006Resilience was originally defined as the ability of a system to respond to external disturbances in the case of maintaining its basic state
Allenby and Fink [30]2005Resilience refers to the ability of a system to maintain its functional and structural stability in the face of internal and external changes, and only when the function and structure are slowly declining
US Department of Homeland Security [31]2006Resilience refers to the ability of the system to efficiently reduce the degree of damage to the system by disasters at a set target functional level in the event of an emergency
Wamsler [32]2007Resilience refers to the ability of urban systems to survive, adapt, and develop in the face of sudden disasters
UNISDR [33]2009Resilience refers to the exposure of a system, community, or society to a hazard, the ability to resist, absorb, adapt to disasters, and effectively reduce below the target
United Nations [34]2009Resilience is defined as the ability of systems, communities, or societies exposed to hazards, to resist, absorb, withstand, and recover from the impacts of disasters in a timely and effective manner, including the protection and restoration of essential infrastructure works and their functions
Cohen et al. [35]2013Resilience is defined as the ability of a society to function properly in times of crisis
Resilience Alliance [36]2022Resilience is the ability of socio-ecological systems to absorb disturbances and pressures from maintaining the original characteristics, especially their original structure and function