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  • 标题:Greater than the sum of our parts? Emerging lessons for UK health and social care
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  • 作者:Jon Glasby ; Helen Dickinson
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Integrated Care
  • 电子版ISSN:1568-4156
  • 出版年度:2008
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:3
  • DOI:10.5334/ijic.246
  • 出版社:Utrecht University, Maastricht University, Groningen University
  • 摘要:Background and introduction: Although most developed countries are currently pursuing greater integration of health and social care, the current evidence base is limited by a number of key weaknesses in the existing literature. Chief amongst these is the tendency to focus on issues of process (‘how well are we working together’?) not on outcomes (does it make any difference to people who use services?). As a result, there is a danger that integration can become an end in itself, rather than a means to an end (of better services and better outcomes).

    Understanding context, process and outcomes: To guard against this danger, this policy paper sets out a number of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to help policy makers, managers and practitioners remain focused on the outcomes that their joint work is meant to achieve. This includes different approaches to being clear about what integration is trying to deliver (outcomes), understanding where we are now (context) and how we get from where we are now to where we want to be (process).

    Conclusion: Rather than assume that integration is automatically a ‘good thing’, the frameworks presented in this paper suggest a more critical approach in which policy makers, managers and practitioners focus in more detail on what they are trying to achieve for the people they serve, viewing integration as a means to an end and never an end in itself.
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