A fully integrated delivery system is one that unites a financing group with all providers from hospitals, clinics, and physicians to home care and long-term care facilities to pharmacies. Integration is being driven by the need to bring all the components of the delivery system together to create a single point of accountability.
Geopolitics (from Greek Î³á¿ gÃª earth, land and ÏÎ¿Î»Î¹ÏÎ¹ÎºÎ® politiká¸ politics) is the study of the effects of geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
One of the simplest means by which science categorizes different aspects of the earth is by dividing it into 'spheres': 1  The lithosphere consists of the earth's crust and upper part of its mantle. 2  The atmosphere is what we call 'the air,' or the mixture of gases held around the earth by its gravitational pull.