Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Integrated Care

T2 - A Pill for All Ills?

AU - Goddard, Maria Karen

AU - Mason, Anne

N1 - © 2016 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences

PY - 2017/1

Y1 - 2017/1

N2 - There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what does integrated care mean in practice? What are the mechanisms by which it is expected to achieve its aim? And what is the nature of the evidence base around the outcomes delivered?

AB - There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what does integrated care mean in practice? What are the mechanisms by which it is expected to achieve its aim? And what is the nature of the evidence base around the outcomes delivered?

KW - Integrated Care

KW - Health Sector

KW - Social Care Sector

U2 - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.111

DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.111

M3 - Article

SN - 2322-5939

VL - 6

SP - 1

EP - 3

JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management

JF - International Journal of Health Policy and Management

IS - 1

ER -