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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254909903321

Titolo

Handbook Integrated Care / / edited by Volker Amelung, Viktoria Stein, Nicholas Goodwin, Ran Balicer, Ellen Nolte, Esther Suter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-56103-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (595 pages)

Disciplina

362.1068

Soggetti

Health services administration

Medical economics

Public health

Political planning

Public administration

Primary care (Medicine)

Health Care Management

Health Economics

Public Health

Public Policy

Public Administration

Primary Care Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Foundations of Integrated Care -- Tools and Instruments -- Management of Integrated Care -- Evaluation and Health Services Research -- Client Groups -- Case Studies.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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.