I want first of all to concentrate on one important aim that has guided Rps in organising this Forum on welfare integration: placing the accent on the concept of «integration» rather than on that of «social-health», understood as a system of services, and this aim is particularly important for me. We can talk about welfare integration in various ways, meaning aspects that are also very different and potentially in conflict with each other. On the one hand, we hear talk of social-health integration as if it were the more or less official name for a sector, a synonym of the social-health sector, that accompanies the health and the care sectors. only subscribers can see the full article