Defining Pooled' Place-Based' Budgets for Health and Social Care: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Current descriptions of pooled budgets in the literature pose challenges to good quality evaluation of their contribution to integrated care. Addressing this gap is increasingly important given the shift from early models of integrated care targeting segments of the population, to more recent approaches that aim to target 'places', broader geographically defined populations. This review draws on the current international evidence to describe practical examples of pooled health and social care budgets, highlighting specific place-based approaches.

Methods

We initially conducted a scoping review, a systematic database search ('Medline', 'Embase', 'Econ Lit' and 'Google Scholar') complemented by further snowballing for academic and 'grey literature' publications (1

SUBMITTER: Tebaldi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9479665 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature