Handbook Integrated Care [electronic resource] /
Amelung, Volker.editor.
Stein, Viktoria.editor.
Goodwin, Nicholas.editor.
Balicer, Ran.editor.
Nolte, Ellen.editor.
Suter, Esther.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Foundations of Integrated Care -- Tools and Instruments -- Management of Integrated Care -- Evaluation and Health Services Research -- Client Groups -- Case Studies.
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.
Health care management.
Health services administration.
Health economics.
Public health.
Public policy.
Public administration.
Primary care (Medicine).
Health Care Management.
Health Economics.
Public Health.
Public Policy.
Public Administration.
Primary Care Medicine.