Scaling-up an integrated care for patients with non-communicable diseases: An analysis of healthcare barriers and facilitators in Slovenia and Belgium

Abstract

Although the concept of integrated care for non-communicable diseases was introduced at the primary level to move from disease-centered to patient-centered care, it has only been partially implemented in European countries. The aim of this study was to identify and compare identified facilitators and barriers to scale-up this concept between Slovenia and Belgium.

Keywords

• scale-up
• noncommunicable diseases
• patient-centered care
• primary healthcare
• integrated healthcare
• nadgradnja
• kronične nenalezljive bolezni
• na pacienta usmerjena oskrba
• primarno zdravstveno varstvo
• celostna oskrba