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The epidemiological transition towards chronic conditions applies to children just as it does to adults and the elderly. Health systems need to adapt to provide more and better quality planned care, health promotion, disease prevention, and health policies that address the upstream determinants of chronic disease. Yet countries struggle to shift the focus of healthcare away from acute and urgent reactive care, so the hospital-centric health model continues to dominate. A wide variety of government and non-governmental strategies are focused on developing integrated care services as a way for health systems to adapt to meet current and evolving needs more effectively and efficiently. However, the majority of these initiatives are tailored to the needs of adults or the elderly, with scarce consideration for the distinct needs of children and young people.

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    The term children will be used for brevity and convenience, but all the stages of early years from birth, including infants, children, and young people, should be understood unless otherwise specified.

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  1. Public Health, King’s College London, London, UK

    Ingrid Wolfe

  2. Paediatric Public Health, Evelina London Children’s Healthcare, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Ingrid Wolfe

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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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Wolfe, I. (2017). Children. 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_21

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