IPCHS. Integrated People-Centred Health Services

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Feb. 14, 2023 Americas Publication

Does Integrated Care Carry the Gene of Bureaucracy? Lessons from the Case of Québec

Demographic and epidemiological transitions of industralized countries mean health systems have to integrate health and social services to respond to the changing needs of their populations. Efforts to integrate care involve important policy and structural changes. This paper examines whether integration efforts are lost in translation during the bureaucratic appropriation of models, or, in an allegorical way, do they reveal genes of bureaucracy?