What's Missing? A Brief Gap Analysis of Contemporary Integrated Care

At the forefront of IFIC and ICIC has always been inclusiveness and inclusivity of individuals and communities that may have been marginalized by traditional approaches to healthcare and well-being. This year’s conference header, “Integrated Care for all: Promoting Health and Wellbeing Through Diversity,” along with the four themes, further exemplifies this desire to advance health care and well-being to all. Yet, a review of previous conference programs and themes may offer some insight into gaps that continue to exist and be prominent in the movement toward integrated care.

This poster seeks to suggest some areas within integrated care that are under-researched, under-practiced, and under-emphasized. This poster’s gap analysis will highlight areas of further developments in integrated care based on the four conference themes.

Most prevalent in this poster’s findings regarding gaps is that certain areas of care and well-being, in particular related to social determinants of health and well-being, requires further emphasis to truly arrive at integrated care for all. Examples which this poster will explore are as follows:

1) Addiction, Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Harm Reduction

2) Wholistic Care and Well-being (Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical)

3) Homelessness

4) Grief & Bereavement

5) Assessments & Integrated Care

6) Immigration/Precarious Immigration Status & Integrated Care

7) Rural Healthcare

8) The “Politics” of Integrated Care

The fundamental spirit of this poster is not critique, but to highlight areas in which integrated care, in its current iterations, requires us to think creatively to advance integrated care for all.