Abstract

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021.

Highlights

  • The unique challenges of the 21st century – from changing demographics, increases in chronic diseases and multi/co-morbidities, to the persisting and/or re-emerging burden of communicable diseases, all in the context of the changing environment and global financial crisis – demand transformations in the delivery of services towards people-centered health systems that are fit for purpose in the 21st century

  • Having worked in Somalia, Liberia and Siberia, and been based in the WHO Country Office in Myanmar and in the WHO Office of the Special Representative of the DirectorGeneral in the Russian Federation, Dr Kluge has a wealth of country and management experience spanning several WHO Regions and a broad background in health systems, public health and infectious diseases

  • Dr Kluge moved to the WHO Regional Office in Copenhagen in 2009 when he was recruited to the position of Unit Head, Country Policies and Systems and has since worked as the Regional Director’s Special Representative to Prevent and Combat M/XDR-TB in the WHO European Region and most recently as Director, Division of Health Systems and Public Health

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The unique challenges of the 21st century – from changing demographics, increases in chronic diseases and multi/co-morbidities, to the persisting and/or re-emerging burden of communicable diseases, all in the context of the changing environment and global financial crisis – demand transformations in the delivery of services towards people-centered health systems that are fit for purpose in the 21st century. Developing a regional action framework for coordinated/ integrated Health Services Delivery (CIHSD) in the WHO European region

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