Integrated Health and Social Home Care Services in Catalonia: Professionals' Perception of its Implementation, Barriers, and Facilitators.

Introduction: This study aimed to assess the implementation of integrated social and health home care services (HCS) offered by the Government of Catalonia, and to identify the main barriers and facilitators of integrated HCS.

Methods: Analysis of the degree of implementation of integrated social and health HCS perceived by social care services (SCS) and primary health care centers (PHCs) between December 2020 and June 2021 in two phases. First, the perception of integration by social workers within SCS and PHCs was assessed using a screening questionnaire.

Disability among older people in a southern European city in 2006: trends in gender and socioeconomic inequalities.

Background And Aims: We wished to describe disability prevalence in people aged >or=65 years in Barcelona in 2006, its trends since 1992, and disability inequalities by gender and socioeconomic position (SEP).

Methods: This was a cross-sectional design, including data from the 1992, 2000, and 2006 Barcelona Health Interview Surveys (noninstitutionalized population >or=65 years old). Disability was defined as having difficulty carrying out at least one of seven activities of daily living (ADL).

Measuring the performance of urban healthcare services: results of an international experience.

The objective of this paper is to apply a framework for country-level performance assessment to the cities of Montreal, Canada, and Barcelona, Spain, and to use this framework to explore and understand the differences in their health systems. The UK National Health Service Performance Assessment Framework was chosen. Its indicators went through a process of selection, adaptation and prioritisation.