As the prevalence of trauma-related injury continues to rise, attention in the medical research literature has begun to shift from tertiary care to primary prevention. Though trauma prevention can be classified in a number of different ways, one of the most recently proliferative classifications of prevention is resilience. Since the beginning of the last century, the concept of resilience has received increasingly greater attention in published medical research, though few efforts have been made to formally define this concept or offer a structure for theorizing about what resiliency means. The purpose of this editorial is to provide background information on the evolution of resilience as a concept, borrow from disparate fields to examine the breadth with which this concept can be used in medical research, and propose a conceptual framework for its critical examination.
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