Healthcare Integration – Do We Think Broadly Enough?

Conclusions:In order to totally integrate care, we need to incorporate the role of partners outside the formal healthcare system.   These, based on our system’s experience, represent an unrecognized resource equal to the amount of formal healthcare expenditure, if not more.  The challenge is to develop a mechanism for integrating these partners and roles into one care system.Transferability:While every formal health system is different, all care involves self-care, care partners and the volunteer sector.   Thus, identifying all the sources of care and incorporating them into an integrated approach has applicability regardless of country or system. Published on 2022-11-04 00:00:00
Source: International Journal of Integrated Care - Category: Nursing Source Type: research