Full Description
This handbook shares profound insights into the main principles and concepts of integrated care. It offers a multi-disciplinary perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of healthcare. The handbook also highlights international best practices and shows how integrated care can work in various health systems.
In the majority of health systems around the world, the delivery of healthcare and social care is characterised by fragmentation and complexity. Consequently, much of the recent international discussion in the fields 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 them 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.
The third edition offers new chapters on people-centredness, complexity theories and evaluation methods, additional management tools and a wealth of experiences from different countries and localities. It is essential reading both for health policymakers seeking inspiration for legislation and for practitioners involved in the management of public health services who want to learn from good practice.
Contents
What is Integrated Care.- Refocussing Care What Does People Centredness Mean.- Evidence Supporting Integrated Care.- Values in Integrated Care.- Integrating Health and Social Care Systems.- Integrated Community Care A Community Drive.- Path Dependence and Integrated Care.- Values and Culture for Integrated Care.- Population health management.- Interoperability in the context of integrated care.- Digital Equity in Integrated Care.- Co Design and Design Thinking in Integrared Care.- Involving the patients and caregivers in design and implementation of integrated care.- Citizen leaders as partners in systems and organisations.- community resilience.- People driven care from rhetoric to reality.- Community health worker programmes.
