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The current chapter introduces Healthy Healthcare, an integrated perspective involving quality of care, workers’ wellbeing, and organisation of healthcare services, for a system-based understanding of healthcare practice. Healthy Healthcare is based on three main conditions, herein termed pillars, of healthcare delivery: (a) quality of care; (b) workers’ wellbeing; and (c) organisation of healthcare. This perspective is important to develop research approaches and to incorporate evidence-based practice and knowledge into Healthy Healthcare. The current volume provides perspectives on Healthy Healthcare based on research from different disciplines and different countries. This chapter introduces Healthy Healthcare with a brief presentation of the modern context of healthcare practice and a description and explanation of the system. It concludes with a brief outline of the volume’s contents.
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Løvseth, L.T., de Lange, A.H. (2020). Integrating Organisation of Healthcare Services, Workers’ Wellbeing, and Quality of Care: An Introduction to the System-Based Perspective of Healthy Healthcare. In: Tevik Løvseth, L., de Lange, A.H. (eds) Integrating the Organization of Health Services, Worker Wellbeing and Quality of Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59467-1_1
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