The current state of Health Links

Abstract

Health Links is a model of care focused on integrating efforts across the spectrum of health and social service providers in the province of Ontario. Health Links is driven by government policy and has been implemented by leveraging a local, flexible approach. As a recent initiative, existing documentation on Health Links is comprised largely of fragmented organizationaland procedural documents (often called grey literature). This paper aims to fill crucial knowledge gaps by introducing the Health Links approach to care, providing a high-level overview of key processes and stakeholders, and discussing the evolution of the Health Links approach.