Applying the concept of social innovation to population-based healthcare

Sebastian Merkel

European Planning Studies, 2020, vol. 28, issue 5, 978-990

Abstract: Population-based healthcare follows an integrated and regional approach instead of focusing on single individuals and marks a new way of how healthcare is organized and provided. Although promoted by policy-makers, up to date these models are rather an exception than the norm. Still, there are some successful examples. This paper focuses on population-based integrated care programmes in Germany and draws its conclusions on a case study within the German healthcare system. Applying the concept of social innovation, we discuss the potential benefits but also limitations of population-based healthcare and explain why these approaches have not been able to achieve the impact that many stakeholders expected.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1552664

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