Toward the coordination and integration of personal health services.

Abstract

Presented is an analysis of the need for, and the problems involved in, achieving coordination of health services at the local level. These problems arise from the separate authorities that fund and administer the facilities, from the endeavor to provide comprehensive care, and the need to cut across various established but artificial lines among professional and other groups involved in health.

How unique is continuity of care? A review of continuity and related concepts

“…It was described as the cooperation between care providers. [23][24][25] Coordination meant keeping each other up to date by effective communication and linking different programmes and activities. 26,27 In the 1970s and 1980s, a more narrow definition was introduced.…”