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As is the case for integrated care in general, workforce interventions need to be well planned, implemented, and evaluated. The journey to improved health outcomes by means of integrated care is a relatively recent one, but it has demonstrated that workforce changes form an area of attention that is essential for the understanding and success of integrated strategies as a whole. Even if integrated care should be surpassed by a superior approach in the future, workforce changes as part of complex improvement strategies will necessarily remain on the radar of every health care system working towards improved population health.
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Busetto, L., Calciolari, S., González-Ortiz, L.G., Luijkx, K., Vrijhoef, B. (2021). Integrated Care and the Health Workforce. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Suter, E., Goodwin, N., Nolte, E., Balicer, R. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_20
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