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What a Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health: Commencing an Ethnography in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Australia

Samuel Petrie, Dean B. Carson, Paul A. Peters, Anna‐Karin Hurtig, Michele LeBlanc, Holly Simpson, Jaymie Barnabe, Mikayla Young, Mara Ostafichuk, Heidi Hodge, Justin Gladman, Matilda Smale, Manueal Gonzalez Garcia · 2021 · Frontiers in Public Health

Summary. The paper examines how rural health systems in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Australia built resilience and capacity during the pandemic. Using antifragility as a framework—the concept that systems strengthen under stress—the authors conducted ethnographic research to understand how rural health innovations emerged and persisted through crisis conditions.

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Petrie, S., Carson, D. B., Peters, P. A., Hurtig, A., LeBlanc, M., Simpson, H., Barnabe, J., Young, M., Ostafichuk, M., Hodge, H., Gladman, J., Smale, M., & Garcia, M. G.. (2021). What a Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health: Commencing an Ethnography in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Australia. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.768624

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DOI
10.3389/fpubh.2021.768624
Countries
Canada, United States, Sweden, Australia
Regions
North America, Europe, Oceania
Categories
rural-healthcare, innovation-theory
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2026-04-28