Publications
Sagan A, Thomas S, Webb E, McKee M. Assessing resilience of a health system is difficult but necessary to prepare for the next crisis BMJ 2023; 382 :e073721 doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-073721
Witter, S., Thomas, S., Topp, S. M., Barasa, E., Chopra, M., Cobos, D., . . . Ager, A. (2023). Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation. The Lancet Global Health, 11(9), e1454-e1458. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00279-6
Fleming, P., Farsaci, L., Mockler, D., & Thomas, S. (2023). PROTOCOL: A realist review to identify the key factors internationally that impact the development of systemic health reform and to identify when and how to preserve reform integrity and / or embrace reform evolution. PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews (CRD42023394427). Retrieved from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023394427
Thomas, S., O'Donoghue, C., McCarthy, N., Almirall-Sanchez, A., Burke, S., Keegan, C., . . . Fleming, P. (2023). The PRESTO report: Sustainability and Resilience in the Irish Health System - A collaboration between the PHSSR and the RESTORE project. Retrieved from London: Presto report
Fleming, P., Caffrey, L., Van Belle, S., Barry, S., Burke, S., Conway, J., Sierbaek, R., Mockler, D. & Thomas, S. (2022). How International Health System Austerity Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis Impacted Health System and Workforce Resilience – A Realist Review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Retrieved from https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4354.html
Fleming, P., O'Donoghue, C., Almirall-Sanchez, A., Mockler, D., Keegan, C., Cylus, J., . . . Thomas, S. (2022). Metrics and Indicators Used to Assess Health System Resilience in Response to Shocks to Health Systems in High Income Countries - A Systematic Review. Health Policy. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.10.001
Fleming, P., Thomas, S., Williams, D., Kennedy, J., & Burke, S. (2022). Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008–2021. Human Resources for Health, 20(1), 48. doi:10.1186/s12960-022-00747-8. Retrieved from: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-022-00747-8
Burke, S., Parker, S., Fleming, P., Barry, S., & Thomas, S. (2021). Building health system resilience through policy development in response to COVID-19 in Ireland: From shock to reform. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 9. doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100223. Retrieved from https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00208-8/fulltext
Fleming, P., Caffrey, L., Mockler, D., & Thomas, S. (2021). PROTOCOL: A realist review to determine how health system austerity responses to the 2008 financial crisis impacted health system resilience for subsequent shocks - why, when, for whom and under what circumstances. PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews(CRD42021264112 ). Retrieved from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021264112
Unruh, L., Allin, S., Marchildon, G., Burke, S., Barry, S., Siersbaek, R., Thomas, S., Selina, R., Andriy, K., Alexander, M., Merkur, S., Webb, E., Williams, G.A. (2021) A comparison of health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Health Policy, ISSN 0168-8510, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.06.012.
O'Donoghue, C., Thomas, S., Fleming, P., Almirall-Sanchez, A. & Mockler, D. (2021). "PROTOCOL: Metrics and Indicators Used to Assess Health System Resilience in Response to Shocks to Health Systems - A Systematic Review." PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews. Retrieved from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=241519
Thomas, S., Fleming, P., O'Donoghue, C., & Almirall-Sanchez, A. (2021). Strengthening health system resilience – what role for migrants and migration policies? The Migrants and Systemic Resilience Hub, 5. Retrieved from https://migrationpolicycentre.eu/projects/migrants-resilience-global-covid19-research-policy-mig-res-hub/#.X_8JM8pcvs4
Thomas, S., Sagan, A., Larkin, J., Cylus, J., Figueras, J., & Karanikolos, M. (2020). Strengthening health systems resilience: Key concepts and strategies Retrieved from WHO, Denmark: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332441/Policy-brief%2036-1997-8073-eng.pdf
Thomas,S, Johnston, J, Barry, S, Siersbaek, R, Burke, S., Sláintecare implementation status in 2020: Limited progress with entitlement expansion, Health Policy, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851021000270?via%3Dihub
Sagan, A., Thomas, S., McKee, M., Karanikolos, M., Azzopardi-Muscat, N., de la Mata, I., & Figueras, J. (2020). COVID-19 and Health Systems Resilience: Lessons going forward. Eurohealth, 26(2), 20-24.