This handbook gives profound insight into the main ideas and concepts of integrated care. It offers a managed care perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of health care. The handbook also provides...

The person at the centre of health systems : an introduction -- Person-centredness : exploring its evolution and meaning in the health system context -- Person-centred health systems : strategies, drivers and impacts -- Achieving person-centred health systems : levers and strategies -- Community...

Part I: Foundations of Integrated Care -- Part II: Management of Integrated Care -- Part III: Tools and Instruments -- Part IV: Evaluation and Health Services Research -- Part V: Selected Client Groups -- Part VI: Case Studies.

This handbook gives profound insight into the main ideas and concepts of integrated care. It offers a managed care perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of health care. The handbook also provides...

BACKGROUND In 2004, the Moldovan government introduced mandatory (social) health insurance (MHI) with the goals of sustainable health financing and improved access to services for poorer sections of the population. The government pays contributions for non-employed groups but the self-employed,...