Population-based integrated care funding values and guiding principles: An empirical qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: There is wide agreement on the benefits of integrated care; yet funding barriers persist. We suggest that funding models could currently hinder quality of care and that identifying values is necessary to designing adequate funding models. Yet it is currently unclear what are these values that ought to shape healthcare policy decisions. To fill in this gap, we conducted semi-structure interviews with fourteen health policy officials, managers, and researchers to elicit and explore how they conceptualize the values and guiding principles underlying these funding policies. Our findings suggest that values guide population-based integrated funding models, namely: accountability & integrity, transparency, equity, and innovation. Overall, funding mechanisms could incentivize integrated populatio

SUBMITTER: Laberge M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10839591 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature