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Integrated Local Networks as a Model for Organizing Mental Health Services

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Organizing services in an integrated network as a model for transforming healthcare systems is often presented as a potential remedy for service fragmentation that should enhance system efficiency. In the mental health sector, integration is also part of a diversified response to the multiple needs of the clients, particularly people with serious mental health disorders. The authors describe how the notion of integrated service networks came to serve as a model for transforming the mental health system in Québec, and they propose a frame of reference for this notion. They also address the challenges and issues raised by this mode of service organization in the mental health sector and more generally in a context of transforming healthcare systems.

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Fleury, MJ., Mercier, C. Integrated Local Networks as a Model for Organizing Mental Health Services. Adm Policy Ment Health 30, 55–73 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021227600823

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