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Chapter 24 - Integrated People-Centered Health Care

What It Is and How It’s Done!

from Section 2 - Transforming Health Systems: Confronting Challenges, Seizing Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

By
Katherine Rouleau ,
Shatha Albeik ,
Sayed Masoom Shah ,
Kenneth Yakubu  and
Akihiro Seita
Edited by
Sameen Siddiqi ,
Awad Mataria ,
Katherine D. Rouleau  and
Meesha Iqbal
Sameen Siddiqi
Affiliation:
Aga Khan University
Awad Mataria
Affiliation:
World Health Organization, Egypt
Katherine D. Rouleau
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Meesha Iqbal
Affiliation:
UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston
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Summary

The integration of people-centred services is key to improving the performance of health systems. This chapter explores the rationale and definitions of integrated and people-centred services, considers frameworks to inform and drive integrated care, and describes common barriers as well as enabling strategies related to values and policy, the engagement of key stakeholders and operational considerations. It highlights the unique role of family practice (also called family medicine) as a community-based and community-oriented discipline, and as a driver of comprehensive integrated people-centred care. It concludes with a description of the key strategies used in the re-organization of primary care services into a family health model by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Near East in 2011.

Keywords

Integrated servicesIntegrationPeople-centredPerson-centredFamily practiceFamily medicineGeneral practiceCase managementIntegrated people centred health careMultidisciplinary teamsL&MIC
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Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries
Textbook for Public Health Practitioners
 , pp. 368 - 384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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