Handbook Integrated Care

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Handbook Integrated Care

Public administration Health economics Public health and preventive medicine General practice / Family medicine

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Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 30th June 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9783319561035


Overview

This handbook gives profound insight into the main ideas and concepts of integrated care. It offers a managed care perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of health care. The handbook also provides international best practices and shows how integrated care does work throughout various health systems.

Context and Challenges

The delivery of health and social care is characterised by fragmentation and complexity in most health systems throughout the world. Therefore, much of the recent international discussion in the field of health policy and health management has focused on the topic of integrated care. “Integrated” acknowledges the complexity of patients´ needs and aims to meet it by taking into account both health and social care aspects. Changing and improving processes in a coordinated way is at the heart of this approach.

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