Purpose To examine the evolution of health care integration strategies and associated
conceptualization and practice through a review and synthesis of over 25 years of …

Health systems are facing increasing pressures due to several factors such as the COVID-19
pandemic and rising health and social care demands. Policy makers, researchers, health …

The past two decades have seen an accumulation of theoretical and empirical evidence for
the interlinkages between human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystem …

This article is part of the Research Topic 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-
19 and Protracted Conflict'. Background COVID-19 has highlighted existing health …

This study aimed to analyse the concept of “complex adaptive systems.” The construct is still
nebulous in the literature, and a further explanation of the idea is needed to have a shared …

Background The poor physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is often
attributed to lifestyle, disease-related medication side effects and disparate provision of …

Abstract Background In 2009, Alberta Health Services (AHS) became Canada's first and
largest fully integrated healthcare system, involving the amalgamation of nine regional …

This work investigates the performance and inter‐sectoral interaction mechanism of China's
largest vertically integrated care network, the national medical alliance (NMA). The data …

Purpose As a result of demographic changes, older people are increasingly living at home,
with multi-morbidity and complex care needs. This calls for enhanced integration of …

In post-conflict settings, service coverage indices are unlikely to be sustained if health
systems are built on weak and unstable inter-organization networks—here referred to as …