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Using routinely available indicators, we developed measures of service disruption (including conflict exposure, displacement pressure, and price instability) and indicators of system capacity (governance effectiveness and health financing) and then summarized coverage gaps relative to prepandemic baselines as recovery debt. We identified service delivery archetypes using unsupervised clustering, with stability and interpretability checks, and then assessed whether archetype membership and recovery debt were associated with reported measles activity using negative binomial models with population offsets, regional fixed effects, and clustered standard errors. Four robust archetypes emerged, each characterized by distinct driver profiles and equity gradients. 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