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.
1. (Physical Geography) an opening in the earth's crust from which molten lava, rock fragments, ashes, dust, and gases are ejected from below the earth's surface. 2. (Physical Geography) a mountain formed from volcanic material ejected from a vent in a central crater.