Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC): Areas of Focus and Essential Elements

What are evidence-informed interventions?

In the context of THINC, evidence-informed health care interventions include policies, programs, services and models of funding or delivering care that have been piloted or tested in a given setting or population and show promise for spread and scale in diverse contexts.

What is the Quadruple Aim?

The Quadruple aim is centred on four overarching goals to redesign health care delivery systems: improving the patient experience of care; the health of populations; the health care provider experience; and value for money. IHSPR has placed health equity at the centre of these aims to encourage all health system improvement and transformation efforts to be done with the intention of improving health equity.

What are priority populations?

Priority populations include those for whom the evidence indicates integrated care interventions are most needed and have the greatest potential to benefit, including: people with complex health needs (e.g., individuals with multimorbidity, individuals with mental health needs and/or substance use); those currently or at risk of experiencing poor health outcomes based on social economic factors (e.g., ethnic background, gender, disability, age, rural and remote location, homelessness, immigration status, socioeconomic status) and/or those identifying with historically underrepresented populations (e.g. women, children and youth, racialized communities, people living with disabilities, members of LGBTQIA/2S communities, Indigenous Peoples).