Integrated Community Care Delivered by Public Health-Care and Social-Care Systems: Results from a Realist Synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Integrated community care (ICC) is defined as an interweaving of health-care and social-care interventions deployed in spatial and relational proximity using an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach. Consideration of territory scale and time scale are at the center of ICC practices. Its deployment in public health and social care networks (HSCN) can be complex due to their broad mandate, the complexity of their management, and accountability. Therefore, we aimed to describe ICC delivered by public HSCN to determine how, why, for whom, and in what circumstances ICC works and produces outcomes.

Methods

A realist synthesis was conducted consisting of five steps consistent with realist synthesis standards (RAMESES projects) to produce configurations of Conte

SUBMITTER: Allaire JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10870956 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature