Scale-up Integrated Care for Chronic Diseases in Belgium: a process evaluation of policy dialogues and roadmap interventions

Background. The goal of more integrated care has been on the Belgium health care policy agenda since 2007 with the start of disease specific care trajectories, reports on chronic care and pilot projects at local level. While there is consensus on what needs to be done, the process of how it should be done is much more uncertain. Scale-up of integrated care is complex, because it requires multi-stakeholder action and intersectoral coordination at individual healthcare practice, organizational, and political/system levels, and tailoring to the context in which it is delivered. There is little re... Mehr ...