The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.
IJIC has an Impact Factor of 1.837 (2017 JCR, received in June 2018)
Registration has officially opened for IFIC’s International Summer School on Integrated Care 2019 (ISSIC19) that will be hosted at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK between Sunday, June 23 and Friday, June 28.
Book your place now and take advantage of our early bird discount offer giving you 10% discount on the cost of the week-long course if you book before Friday, February 15, 2019.
Led by our CEO, Dr Nick Goodwin, and Senior Fellow, Margrieta Langins ISSIC19 offers an intensive one-week education and training course on the theory and practice of integrated care.
The Summer School is aimed at senior professionals, clinicians, researchers and managers working in the field of integrated care. Developed for those tasked with designing, implementing, leading and/or managing integrated care, the syllabus will include a site visit and presentations from IFIC’s Integrated Care Academy © faculty and a range of international guest speakers.
A key feature of ISSIC19 will be group work focusing on how to design, implement and evaluate integrated care across a range of case studies. This work seeks to enable participants to understand the range of issues and challenges faced when implementing integrated care effectively and support participants with key lessons and strategies to enable this in their own professional lives and local contexts.
ISSIC19 also offers the unique opportunity to foster international networking and knowledge exchange.
Full details of the programme will be announced soon.
Book now to avoid disappointmentPosted on 10 Dec 2018
Over the past two years the number of papers published in IJIC from PhD students has risen steadily to the point where they now contribute to about one-third of all original articles. This is a cause for celebration regarding the quality of work being undertaken by young researchers internationally, but unfortunately it has posed a problem for the ability of the Journal to self-finance its open-access approach to publishing. Given that many PhD students today receive a budget for open-access publishing, IJIC must announce that from 1 January 2019 we will be requiring all articles first authored by PhD students, and submitted after that date, to pay a discounted author fee of £625 GBP plus VAT. If any PhD student does not have access to such a publication budget then, with an accompanying signed and stamped letter from their University, we will continue to publish articles from those PhD students at no cost. We thank all the PhD students who have published successfully their original articles in our Journal. We would also like to remind our PhD students that IFIC retains a policy to publish short thesis summaries for free within the Journal and that IFIC runs an Emerging Researchers in Integrated Care (ERIC) programme that is designed to support the next generation of students and young academics to shape the integrated health and care systems of tomorrow. Further information on ERIC can be accessed here: https://integratedcarefoundation.org/ific-integrated-care-academy/emerging-researchers-in-integrated-care
Posted on 22 Nov 2018
International Medical Corps’ Toolkit aims to support the understanding and implementation of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings. It includes key guidance and resources that reinforce the integration process among implementation partners, donors and governments. The toolkit outlines the steps for integrated mental health programs and provides valuable guidance for better resource allocation, program design, contextualization, implementation and evaluation. The Toolkit is the result of a two-year process of consultation, resource-mapping and development with a Toolkit Advisory Group. This Toolkit was made possible by the generous support of the U. S. Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.
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Posted on 05 Nov 2018
IFIC was delighted to help launch the countdown to the 1st North American Conference on Integrated Care taking place in 2020.
Called Innovation. Inspiration. Integration: Co-designing for Health and Wellbeing with Individuals and Communities, this conference, in association with the 6th World Congress on Integrated Care, will take place in Toronto, Canada.
The 2020 conference is a partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), The Change Foundation, the University of Toronto and KPMG, and is in association with iCoach and the Health System Performance Research Network.
Dr Nick Goodwin, CEO and IFIC Co-founder, said “I would like to thank our willing and committed partners from the University of Toronto, the Change Foundation and KPMG Canada for all their leadership and support in bringing us to this point, and to the collective ambition to build a legacy around the event that builds recognition on the need to embrace people-driven care in policy and practice in the future.”
Cathy Fooks, President and CEO of The Change Foundation, added: “We are proud to be a key partner in bringing such a prestigious and growing event to the city of Toronto and believe that it is an opportunity to showcase Canadian models and to hear about what works internationally.”
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The IJIC is sponsored by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), a not for profit network that crosses organisational and professional boundaries to bring people together to advance the science, knowledge and adoption of integrated care policy and practice around the world.