Health Impact assessment_ Scoping ReportIntroductionEven though developing an integrated health care system can be exceedingly expensive, several physicians groups and healthcare facilities have discovered that the integrated health systems can aid in reaping significant benefits. According to Blanford, Kumar, Luo, and MacEachren (2012 p. 24), the benefits may include better quality of service, efficiency in service delivery, much secure practitioner income as well as increased market share. The purposeof this report is to elucidate the significance of integration of health into all policies at regional, community as well as stakeholder levels. It assesses the potential health impacts or effects health integration to the members of the society. The outlining or profiling encompasses gathering as well as analyzing secondary data on an array of indicators associated with the context of this precise proposal. In the same vein, the profiling involves the probable effects of the proposal on health determinants as well as health. It outlines how the society is likely to benefit from health integration. In recognition of the health integration potential, a committee of experts was convened toevaluate the integration of public health and primary care. The ten-member committee comprisesexperts in local public health, state public health, and primary public health (Singer, Burgers, Friedberg, Rosenthal, Leape, and Schneider 2011 p. 123). The team recognized that mental health is one of the inextricable segments of primary care. The committee identified the best instances of effective primary care and public health integration and some of the factors which sustain and promote the efforts such as healthcare policy, health information technology, and public health law. Whereas integration of public health and primary health may be a wooly term,
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