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ArticleClinical interventions in aging2018

Integrated health care systems in Asia: an urgent necessity.

Tat Yean Tham, Thuy Linh Tran, Somjit Prueksaritanond, Josefina S Isidro, Sajita Setia, Vicknesh Welluppillai

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Article in Clinical interventions in aging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Tat Yean ThamClinical Affairs Department, Frontier Healthcare Group, Singapore.
Thuy Linh TranDepartment of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Somjit PrueksaritanondDepartment of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.
Josefina S IsidroDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
Sajita SetiaTransform Medical Communications, Wanganui, New Zealand.
Vicknesh WelluppillaiMedical affairs, Pfizer Essential Health CMO Organization, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, vicknesh.welluppillai@pfizer.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A rapidly aging population along with the increasing burden of patients with chronic conditions in Asia requires efficient health systems with integrated care. Although some efforts to integrate primary care and hospital care in Asia are underway, overall care delivery remains fragmented and diverse, eg, in terms of medical electronic record sharing and availability, patient registries, and empowerment of primary health care providers to handle chronic illnesses. The primary care sector requires more robust and effective initiatives targeted at specific diseases, particularly chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, depression, and dementia. This can be achieved through integrated care - a health care model of collaborative care provision. For successful implementation of integrated care policy, key stakeholders need a thorough understanding of the high-risk patient population and relevant resources to tackle the imminent population demographic shift due to the extremely rapid rate of increase in the aging population in Asia.

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Delivery of Health Care, IntegratedHealth PolicyPhysician's RolePrimary Health CareAsiaChronic DiseaseDemographyElectronic Health RecordsHumansNeeds AssessmentRegistriesagingAsiaintegrated health careprimary care

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PMID30587945
PMCPMC6298881

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