Costa-Font Reforming Long-term Care in Europe

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9554-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costa-Font, Joan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 theFinancing 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 andClaude Martin).
4. Sustainability of Comprehensive Universal Long-term CareInsurance in the Netherlands (Frederik T. Schut and Bernardvan den Berg).
5. Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of theGerman 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 inthe 'Latin Rim' (Joan Costa-Font).
8. One Uniform Welfare State or a Multitude of WelfareMunicipalities? The Evolution of Local Variation in Swedish ElderCare (Gun-Britt Trydegård and Mats Thorslund).
9. Reforming Long-term Care in Portugal: Dealing with theMultidimensional Character of Quality (Silvina Santana).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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).