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Integrated Care and Community Services in Global Health

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People-centeredness, integrated care, and community care all spring from the same common challenge: the understanding that our health and care systems are consistently failing both people and professionals, and the need to recalibrate and relearn some of the old wisdom of what health and wellbeing actually mean. A core tenet for all is the partnership with people and communities on all levels of the system, accepting them as equal partners in the governance, design, delivery, and evaluation of services. As an instrument to address the global health issues and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, people-centered, integrated thinking is essential to ensure sustainable, system-wide, and locally relevant change. This paradigm shift can best be summarized in changing the question from “What’s the matter?” to “What matters to you?” This chapter will explore the key principles of people-centeredness, integrated care, and integrated community care, and discuss how these can support the tackling of global health challenges and lead to better outcomes on individual, community, and system levels.

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  1. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

    K. Viktoria Stein

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  3. Africa, Brazzaville, Rep of the Congo, World Health Organization Regional Offic, Brazzaville, Congo, Demographic Republic (Zaire)

    Matshidiso Moeti

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Stein, K.V. (2021). Integrated Care and Community Services in Global Health. In: Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_124-1

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