Reforming Long-term Care in Europe (eBook)

Joan Costa-Font (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
176 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9553-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most
up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term
care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the
policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis
of each system.

* Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform
agendas in Europe

* Compares countries comparatively less studied with the
experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and
Sweden

* Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in
each country and portrays a description and analysis of each
system

* Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for an
exceptionally broad perspective

Autor

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).

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9553-X / 144439553X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9553-2 / 9781444395532