| 书目名称 | Long-Term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions |
| 编辑 | Roland Eisen (Professur für Wirtschafts- und Sozia |
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| 丛书名称 | Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy |
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| 描述 | Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgentproblems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to leadto a higher proportion of old and very old people in the globalpopulation. As a result, an increased proportion of global income willbe devoted to LTC services. With this in mind, .Long-term Care:Economic Issues and. .Policy Solutions. aims to address thefollowing important objectives: .to provide adetailed analysis of the arrangements and institutions designed toprotect the disabled and dependent elderly people in variouscountries, and to try to evaluate their respective merits. ..todiscuss the projections of future costs of protection for dependentelderly, and to assess the impact of improvements in disability-freelife expectancy on the future cost of care and choices betweeninformal and formal care. ..to present empirical research on thesedecisions, with special consideration of primary caregivers, and onthe substitution between in kind and cash benefits as well as betweeninstitutional (or formal) care and home (or informal) care. ..toanalyze different theoretical approaches in modeling decisionsreferring to LTC services to be provided both within and betw |
| 出版日期 | Book 1996 |
| 关键词 | assessment; health; health care |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4096-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-6834-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-4096-0Series ISSN 0927-4987 |
| issn_series | 0927-4987 |
| copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996 |
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