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Resilience and Health: Implications for Interventions and Policy Making

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Resilience is a complex phenomenon which mediates in successful adaptation to adversity. Researchers are trying to understand its various trajectories, and this is evident in the growing literature relating resilience to health across the life span. This article intends to understand the nature of resilience, its characteristics and its various social, psychological and cultural sources. The research evidence presented provides a glimpse of the meaningful relationship that exists between resilience and health while unfolding the consequences of resilience on various health outcomes. While understanding the underlying reasons for the relationship between resilience and health, interventions at social, psychological, and clinical level have been suggested followed by recommendations for policy initiatives that will facilitate resilience and health.

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Khosla, M. Resilience and Health: Implications for Interventions and Policy Making. Psychol Stud 62, 233–240 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-017-0415-9

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