Integrated Care for Ireland in an International Context: Challenges for Policy, Institutions and Specific User Needs - Softcover

9781781190807: Integrated Care for Ireland in an International Context: Challenges for Policy, Institutions and Specific User Needs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781190801 ISBN 13: 9781781190807

Publisher: Oak Tree Press, 2013

Integrated Care in Ireland in an International Context aims to bring the debate on the future of integrated care in Ireland to a wider audience than heretofore. It is intended to guide the thinking of policy-makers and the whole panoply of different health and social care professions that are stakeholders in the process. Equally important, it is hoped that groups representing the needs of the general population, those with disability, mental illness, older people with specific needs and others also will benefit from the text. The whole project is to improve the overall health and wellbeing of all who live in Ireland. It is hoped also that this publication will be a spur to the further development of research and teaching in the area of integrated care, as well as being a catalyst for the resourcing and implementation of improved public policy in the area. As such, this book will be important to students and lecturers across the disciplines of medicine, social work, social care, gerontology, addiction, health management, lawyers in health and human rights areas, mental health therapists and other sister professions that are not included here, such as occupational and speech/ language/auditory therapies.

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About the Author:

Dr Tom O'Connor is a Health Economist & Social Policy Analyst, and Lecturer in Applied Social Care at Cork Institute of Technology. He has conducted research on Integrated Care, funded by the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning. He also contributes to public economic debates on areas relating to public finances, taxation and public health. He is a prominent intellectual in the area of Integrated Care in Ireland. Tom is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care and on the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. He is also a member of the International Federation of Integrated Care and the TASC Economists' Network.

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