Does Integrated Care Carry the Gene of Bureaucracy? Lessons from the Case of Québec

Demographic and epidemiological transitions of industralized countries mean health systems have to integrate health and social services to respond to the changing needs of their populations. Efforts to integrate care involve important policy and structural changes. This paper examines whether integration efforts are lost in translation during the bureaucratic appropriation of models, or, in an allegorical way, do they reveal genes of bureaucracy?

Perspectives of people with Parkinson's disease and family carers about disease management in community settings: A cross-country qualitative study

The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of people with Parkinson's disease and family carers about the use and impact of health and social care services, community and voluntary sector resources for the management of Parkinson's disease. Resources from outside the formal health care system and collaborations between different levels and sectors could address the unmet needs of people with Parkinson's disease and their family carers and improve the management of Parkinson's disease in the community setting. An integrated and person-and-community-centred approach, which includes the participation of the health, social, voluntary and community sectors ...

Reflecting on challenges and opportunities for the practice of person-centred rehabilitation

Nursing Care Coordination in Primary Healthcare for Patients with Complex Needs: A Comparative Case Study

Despite nurses’ substantial role in care coordination, few education programs exist to better support them in this role. Identification of a set of core care coordination activities across heterogeneous care coordination programs would facilitate the development of a standard of practice. We sought to examine care coordination activities across two care coordination programs in Family Medicine Groups in Quebec, and their relationship to the program design.

Adaptation and validation of the Ugandan Primary Care Assessment Tool

Promoting Integrated Care Across the World

Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): an innovative model of integrated geriatric care and financing

The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a long-term care delivery and financing innovation. A major goal of PACE is prevention of unnecessary use of hospital and nursing home care.

Knowledge management in a regional integrated health and social care system

This article analyses a major healthcare and social welfare reform establishing new regional and integrated wellbeing services counties in Finland. The authors approach the reform and service integration as a knowledge management (KM) issue and analyse how KM appears and contributes in the context of integrated care, specifically in the process of integrating social and health care.

How can skill-mix innovations support the implementation of integrated care for people with chronic conditions and multimorbidity?

• The increasing and changing demands of complex patients (with chronic conditions and multimorbidity), combined with growing workloads and shortages of primary care providers, demand the reorganization of services for more patient-centred and more efficient care.
• Reorganizing health and social care services to integrate care requires that the health workforce adopt “skill-mix changes” including reskilling; a different approach to sharing tasks and roles; and improved coordination.
• Skill mix changes typically involve innovative re-allocation of tasks between professions; new supplementary roles; and/or the introduction of greater teamworking and flexibility.
• The most promising skill-mix innovations for improving integration of care of patients ...

Integrated brief interventions for noncommunicable disease risk factors in primary care: the manual: BRIEF project

Brief interventions are recognized by WHO as an effective measure to help people quit tobacco, reduce or stop alcohol use and increase physical activity. They can also help to achieve and maintain healthy eating behaviours and manage weight for those living with overweight and obesity. Brief interventions can translate to significant health benefits at population level when systematically applied to a large proportion of people. The uptake of these interventions in the WHO European Region, however, remains low. This manual is an integral part of the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases BRIEF project. The ...