Building integrated Care in a community: MAPPING HEALTH RESOURCES.

Building a Tower of Babel in health care? Theory & practice of community-based integrated care

Many hold that performance in health care can be improved. However, the state-of-the-art on health care improvement indicates that improvement activities and strategies have too limited success so far. From a ‘systems perspective’, this limited success stems from a lack of coherence among the various strategies and instruments employed. For example, practice guidelines, client councils, regulat...

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Building integrated care systems: a case study of Bidasoa Integrated Health Organisation

INTRODUCTION This paper analyses the implementation of integrated care policies in the Basque Country through the deployment of an Integrated Health Organisation in Bidasoa area during the period 2011-2014. Structural, functional and clinical integration policies have been employed with the aim to deliver integrated and person-centred care for patients, especially for those living with chronic ...

Building Community Capacity for Health Promotion in a Hispanic Community

The Latino Education Project (LEP) is conducting a multilevel Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 diabetes prevention project in Nueces County, one of 12 counties located in the Coastal Bend area of south Texas. Nueces County is characterized by high levels of poverty and diabetes-related complications and disability. The LEP chose a community capacity-building approac...

Collaborating sites for community-oriented integrated care and health promotion

London Journal of Primary Care wishes to develop a network of collaborating sites to better understand how to achieve community-oriented integrated care and health promotion in different contexts. A collaborating site can do more than submit papers. It can develop its own domain on the LJPC website, contribute to the development of LJPC policy, and stimulate discussions with other collaborating...