As an integral part of the WHO Regional Office for
Europe, the WHO European Office for Integrated
Health Care Services deals specifically with the issue
Integrated Care. It aims to identify strategies used in
health care services in different countries to facilitate
and encourage the coordination between levels of
care and improve outcomes w5x. The main areas of
work of the office, which is based in Barcelona and
supported by the Regional Government of Catalonia,
are: Linking Levels of Care, Primary Health Care,
Hospital Management, Emergency Services, Health
Promoting Hospitals, Home Health Care, Human
Resource Development, and Telemedicine. All projects
have an important component of coordinating
and integrating health care services, being in themselves
closely linked together and supplementing each
other