Topics

Populations’ health promotion, protection, illness prevention
•    Before care is needed: health promotion, protection, illness prevention, across the life cycle, in mental health, primary care, and public health
•    Perinatal, maternal, and child health: risk and protective factors, lifelong consequences
•    Energy sources, climate change, global disasters, and populations’ health
•    Where there is no physician: mental health and primary care for underserved populations

Training, education, mentoring, leadership, ethics
•    Training/educational models for integrated care: during graduate, post-graduate medical education, and CME programs
•    Career, leadership, and mentorship for young, health professionals
•    Medical ethics: principles and guidelines applicable to research and clinical practice
•    New research by young, early career investigators

Non-Communicable Diseases and Comorbidity Research
•    Determinants of Health: Social, biological, genetic, psychological, environmental
•    Comorbidity: a challenge and a catalyst for mental health and primary care integration
•    Comorbidity research: depression, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
•    Morbidity and mortality among the severely mentally ill with comorbid conditions
•    Single v. combined treatments for comorbid conditions

Health systems’ strengthening & health policies
•    Collaborative and integrated care models for comorbid conditions: best practices and lessons learned
•    Catalytic incentives for the health team: efficiency and effectiveness in collaborative and integrated care
•    Financing and health workforce challenges: opportunities in integrated and collaborative health systems
•    Health policy models that facilitate and enhance care integration
•    Health systems’ strengthening: the essential role of mental health, primary care, and public health integration

Information, communication technology & new models of integrated care
•    Telemedicine: Delivering education, training, consultations & care at remote locations
•      Monitoring non-communicable diseases at home
•    New models: medical homes, accountable care organizations, other

New Research: Integrated, Collaborative care, access, quality, costs, and outcomes

Advocacy models in integrated health care systems: Best practices and lessons learned from Eurasia & Southeast Europe

Eurasia & Southeast Europe, country reports: Collaborative, integrated care, populations’ health, current status, future directions