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An Introduction to Integrated Care and Diabetes Integrated Care

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Health care has evolved as the complexity of interventions have advanced. Increasing specialisation has allowed greater skill and expertise to be focussed on any given health problem. However, diabetes has multiple causes and effects, resulting in a need for the involvement of a raft of specialties to focus on their part of the problem. The complexity of the interrelationships between these specialties, and their separate clinical, information, corporate and financial governance has inevitably led to a degree of fragmentation that now impacts on the overall quality of diabetes care received by a given patient. Diabetes Integrated Care is the term used for approaches that bring together these different components of health services that are responsible for the clinical care of people with diabetes. This includes horizontal integration, where care is integrated within primary care or within secondary care, which are now multidisciplinary, and vertical integration, which involves the articulation between primary and secondary care and the associated governance. This chapter provides an overview of the wider definitions, components and objectives of diabetes integrated care to provide a framework for the subsequent chapters.

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    David Simmons

  2. Health Economist, Konstanz, Germany

    Helmut Wenzel

  3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

    Janice C. Zgibor

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Wenzel, H., Simmons, D. (2017). An Introduction to Integrated Care and Diabetes Integrated Care. In: Simmons, D., Wenzel, H., Zgibor, J. (eds) Integrated Diabetes Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13389-8_1

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