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Handbook of integrated care edited by Volker Amelung [and five others]

Springer Nature - Springer Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Amelung, Volker Eric, 1965- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Integrated delivery of health care.
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated.
Medical Subjects:
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
Third edition
Place of Publication:
Cham Springer [2025]
Summary:
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
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2026)
Other Format:
Print version :
Print version Amelung, Volker Handbook of Integrated Care
ISBN:
9783031962868
3031962869
OCLC:
1530777137
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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