title: [A necessary integration].
abstract: The author reflects about the need to integrate health system professionals with the demands of society. The relationships among citizens and health professionals, inside the structure of the sanitary system, develop inside a global context constituted by society The tendency of the sanitary system to increase the power of a biomedical vision and the depersonalization of the relationships with patients should lead to a social debate about the desired, necessary and sustainable model of health care-nursing. A bio-psycho-social concept of health care, an integration of scientific knowledge and the incorporation of communicational competencies constitutes one of the challenges to be met by a sanitary system which should consider the individual person to be its prime reason to exist.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Estudis de la Salut, Barcelona. xcleries@ies.scs.es
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Clèries Costa
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans