When Integrating Care is not Just a Question of Care: The Case of the Implementation of the Plan “Integrated Care for Better Health” for Chronic Patients in the Belgian Health Sector

This qualitative and inductive doctoral research makes a contribution to public policy sciences by analysing different aspects of the process pertaining to the implementation of a specific public policy in the Belgian health sector: the “Integrated Care for Better Health” plan (IC4BH), launched on 19 October 2015 with the intention of integrating care with regard to chronic patients in Belgium. Based on an ethnographic approach, this research draws on several data collection methods: interviews (N=24), focus groups (N=7), direct observation (N=97 — corresponding to 213 hours of observation), d... Mehr ...