DESIGNING AN INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE STRATEGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dymyt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Integrated Health Care ◽  
Integrated Healthcare ◽  
Care Integration ◽  
Integrated Health ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Delivery Of Health Services

The article concerns the strategic dimension of the integration of health care. The concept of integrated health care plays a key role in the improvement of health systems. The complexity of the health care system makes a coherent, comprehensive and coordinated approach to health services necessary. The integration of health care consists in the management and delivery of health services in such a way that patients receive continuity of health care, coordinated at various levels, within and outside the health sector and as needed throughout their lives. The purpose of the article is to present the essence of health care integration and key aspects of the design of integrated healthcare strategy, identify its assumptions and main elements.

scholarly journals Notes on health care planning in Latin America and the Caribbean

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
José Maria Pacheco de Souza ◽  
Dagmar Raczynski ◽  
George B. Patino ◽  
Anthony T. Ribeiro ◽  
Emilio Feliu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Health Care Planning ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Improve Health

Attention is called to the fact that the efforts to improve health of populations in Latin America have generally failed. The inequality in the distribution of ill-health is great. The authors accept the fact that the lack of resources available to the health sector may be a restriction towards the improvement of the situation, but they argue that a much more important issue is the misuse of such resources and their maldistribution within the health sector. The lack of integration and coordination between the health services, the conflict of public and private health systems, the under-utilization of existing services and the gap between planning and real implementation are discussed.

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