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What Is Integrated Care?

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The future sustainability of health and care systems is being challenged by fundamental shifts in demographics and disease status. As the ability to care becomes ever more complex and costly, integrated care has gathered momentum as an international response to these challenges in both policy and practice. Yet, the logic and meaning of integrated care remains contested. This chapter, therefore, seeks to respond to the commonly asked question ‘what is integrated care?’ It examines the rationale that lies behind integrated care and how it is defined. The chapter reviews the building blocks and dynamics of integrated care systems, including key models and concepts, and concludes with some forward thinking on integrated care as an evolving science.

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  1. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX6 2UD, UK

    Nicholas Goodwin & Viktoria Stein

  2. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

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  1. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

  2. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Viktoria Stein

  3. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Nicholas Goodwin

  4. Health Policy Research and Planning, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Ran Balicer

  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Ellen Nolte

  6. Workforce Research & Evaluation, Alberta Health Services Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Esther Suter

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Goodwin, N., Stein, V., Amelung, V. (2017). What Is Integrated Care?. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Goodwin, N., Balicer, R., Nolte, E., Suter, E. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56103-5_1

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