Logiche di public governance dei sistemi sanitari e sociosanitari regionali

The term governance is used with an increasing frequency to indicate the rules, processes and behaviour through which public administrations define and implement policies, strategies and actions. The research aims at improving the knowledge on the application of the public governance framework to regional health and social care systems. It will analyse the evolution of the phenomenon through a double perspective. On the one hand, it will be carried out a review of the literature regarding the integration of health care with social care. On the other hand, it will contribute to identify public governance issues in that process of integration. The main aim of the research is to propose an organizational model of health and social care integration, based on public governance principles and tools which can enable the development and good functioning of an integrated system of health and social care services.