Abstracts by keywords: co-operation
Health systems in Western societies all face similar challenges: The complexity of health care is increasing, not least due to the demographically-related increase in chronic diseases and multimorbidity (Sin, Askar et al. 2015, Seger and Gaertner 2020) and the advancing specialization and fragmentation in the Medicine. At the same time, there is a glaring shortage of skilled workers, especially in rural regions, which no longer only affects nursing and primary care (German Institute for Applied Nursing Research eV Cologne 2021). Against this background, it is important to make optimal use of the available resources in terms of expertise and service provision. The German Science Council postulated interprofessional collaboration as a strategy for the effective organization of health services in order to be able to master the complex challenges of care in the future (Wissenschaftsrat 2012).