[Education and multidisciplinary management in chronic heart failure].

Heart failure is a common, serious and expensive disease. It causes repeated hospitalizations, decreases patients' quality of life, and reduces the independence of elderly patients. It constitutes a major public health problem for which a new organization of care appears necessary.

[Main issues and contributions of the evaluation of health care networks].

Health care networks correspond to a form of horizontal and flexible organisation, which consists in dealing with complex problems of health and long-term care. Networks rest entirely on the mechanisms of coordination between the various actors of care, whose keystone is the medical information flow. The challenge of the health networks evaluation is to prove the added value of a network organization, instead of a conventional disease-centred health care.