This book comprises an edited collection of research studies and conceptual essays on the topic of integrated care. There is no specific logic to the presentation of the material and the contents represent a highly varied and eclectic mix of subjects. Indeed, the contents have all the hallmarks of a set of conference papers that have been collated together without a huge amount of thought. As a...

This article describes the range of options for integrating medicine and psychiatry, with a focus on the advantages and limitations of each model. The models were developed in different countries with specific health care cultures. This article illustrates the range of in- and outpatient options as currently practiced, with case reports from practitioners when possible, and describes qualificat...

The public Finnish social and health care system has been challenged by the economic crisis, administrative reforms and increased demands. Better integration as a solution includes many examples, which have been taken to use. The most important are the rewritten national and municipals strategies and quality recommendations, where the different sectors and the levels of care are seen as one ent...

It was the ambition of this thesis to contribute to the growing interest in integrated care and to the ongoing research in this area by exploring the Swedish development of integrated health care. The general purpose was to study different strategies to improve integration in the Swedish health care system in order to identify some of the key issues and conditions in the creation of integrated ...

Introduction The holistic approach to care for patients with cancer or other illness aims to mobilise their own self-healing powers rather than using extraneous treatments to combat their disease. This entails energising and balancing the ‘whole person’ body, emotions, mind and spirit. Interventions include diet, complementary therapies, healing and psychological and spiritual counselling, comb...

Abstract Services for diabetes mellitus are currently often delivered across primary, community and specialist services managed by separate organizations, driven different priorities, outcome measures budgets, supported incompatible IT systems. Integrated care has been proposed as a solution to improve the fragmentation of services. is coordination around patient, integration health sy...