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Integrated care models: an overview: working document / World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe

Tác giả : World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe

Nhà xuất bản : World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe

Năm xuất bản : 2016

Chủ đề : 1. Delivery of Health Care. 2. Delivery of Health Care, Integrated. 3. Health Services. 4. Technical documents.

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In many health systems, integrated care is seen as a possible solution to the growingdemand for improved patient experience and health outcomes of multimorbid and long-termcare patients. During the last decade different models and approaches to integrated carehave been widely applied and documented across a variety of settings, which has resulted inthe multiplicity of definitions and conceptual frameworks. A literature review conducted byArmitage et al. (5) uncovered some 175 overlapping definitions and concepts of integratedcare, indicating the absence of consensus in its definition. Such multiplicity stems from thepolymorphous nature of the concept that has been applied from several disciplinaryperspectives such as public administration, social science, psychology as well as differingprofessional points of view, such as clinical vs. managerial, holistic care vs. diseasemanagement and public health vs. long-term care. Integrated care is, therefore, associatedwith a wide range of different objectives (6).Today, the lack of common definitions and underlying concepts aggravates the alreadyexisting difficulty to assess integrated care (7). The need to better understand integratedcare extends beyond theoretical rhetoric and is based on the emerging pressure on healthsystems to develop and invest in integrated care, which, in turn, calls for a pragmaticunderstanding of the concept and mapping of evidence. This document aims to extract suchknowledge from the existing conceptual discourse on integrated care and evidence from thefield. By doing so, it will serve as a tool for understanding and distinguishing integrated caremodels in practice. vii, 31 p.

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