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| Integrated care programmes in Canada | | Author(s) | Teresa Bienkowska-Gibbs |
| Journal title | Eurohealth, vol 19, no 2, 2013 |
| Publisher | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 13-14 |
| Source | http://www.euro.who.int/en/who-we-are/parnters/obs... |
| Keywords | Health services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Several Canadian provinces have implemented integrated care initiatives. Alberta and Quebec have both implemented integrated care programmes for their frail older population. Integration of. primary health care has also been conducted in Ontario. The main objectives of these programmes are to improve the health of the population, increase patient satisfaction, and substitute community-based services in place of institution-based services. Where these programmes have been evaluated, results show some success in achieving the projects' objectives. However, it is not clear whether this success is due to effective incentivising of stakeholders or other factors. The fragmentation of the Canadian health care system and the lack of a centralised electronic medical records database pose significant challenges to the successful integration of health care. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-130628217 A |
| Classmark | L: QAJ: QK6: 7S |
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