Successful implementation of integrated care in Slovenian primary care

Abstract

For the purpose of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Alma Ata declaration, the WHO published a successful model of integrated patient care being performed in Slovenia. After two years, the WHO experts evaluated the success in practise during a visit to the Slovenian primary care environment. This report showed that Slovenia was a notable exception regarding developing effective primary care systems. The country has an impressive primary care which performs very well.

Keywords

• primary care
• integrated care
• person-centred care
• family medicine
• slovenia
• primarno zdravstveno varstvo
• integrirana oskrba pacientov
• individualizirana oskrba pacientov
• družinska medicina
• slovenija