Reforming Long-Term Care in Europe

Herausgegeben von Costa-Font, Joan

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Produktbeschreibung

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the mostup-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-termcare in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in thepolicy debate in each country and offers a description and analysisof each system.
Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reformagendas in Europe
Compares countries comparatively less studied with theexperiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands andSweden
Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate ineach country and portrays a description and analysis of eachsystem
Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for anexceptionally broad perspective

Produktdetails

• Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338737
• ISBN-10: 1444338730
• Artikelnr.: 32567896

Autorenporträt

Dr  Joan Costa-Font is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Policy and the European Institute, LSE. His area of expertise is the economic analysis of institutions, health, health care and ageing, with a particular focus on Europe and he is the author of The Economics of New Health Technologies (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial Introduction (Joan Costa-Font).
1. Long-term Care: A Suitable Case for Social Insurance (Nicholas Barr).
2. The Long Road to Universalism? Recent Developments in the Financing of
Long-term Care in England (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Raphael Wittenberg and
Linda Pickard).
3. Reforming Long-term Care Policy in France: Private-Public
Complementarities (Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin).
4. Sustainability of Comprehensive Universal Long-term Care Insurance in
the Netherlands (Frederik T. Schut and Bernard van den Berg).
5. Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of the German Model (
Heinz Rothgang).
6. Long-term Care in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Challenges and
Perspectives in Addressing a 'New' Social Risk (August Österle).
7. Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-term Care in the 'Latin
Rim' (Joan Costa-Font).
8. One Uniform Welfare State or a Multitude of Welfare Municipalities? The
Evolution of Local Variation in Swedish Elder Care (Gun-Britt Trydegård and
Mats Thorslund).
9. Reforming Long-term Care in Portugal: Dealing with the Multidimensional
Character of Quality (Silvina Santana).
Index.