The term "reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH)" describes an integrated continuum of health states which is central to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.
The intervention; " Continuum of Care for Frail Older People", was designed to create an integrated continuum of care from the hospital emergency department through the hospital and back to the older person's own home.
The importance of an integrated continuum of care from pre-pregnancy through childhood across levels of service delivery from household to hospital is well known (7).
In this webinar, Dr. Steven Adelsheim discussed how to create an integrated continuum which includes early psychosis services, with a particular focus on school-based services.
A further 17% of publications identified an integrated or continuum of care model as the main intervention type.
Another 4 (17%) publications identified an integrated or continuum model of maternity care as the main intervention [ 19, 23, 24, 28].
Strengthening health systems in Tanzania is critical in saving the lives of newborns but should happen in an integrated approach as stipulated in the concept of continuum of care that has recently been highlighted as a core principle of maternal, newborn and child health programme, and as a means to save their lives [ 4, 26].
The findings from the HFS trial are anticipated to help practitioners provide women and infants in low-resource settings with an integrated, community-based continuum of care.
In the static case, the method can seamlessly link the length scales from atomistic to continuum in an integrated formalism.
To this end, the interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) assessment instrument was developed as part of an integrated suite of instruments spanning the continuum of care [ 6, 7].
The ultimate goal of using "-omics" technologies to identify environmental causes of disease is to derive an integrated view of the biological processes involved in the continuum from exposure to disease.
