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Long-term Care Financing: Inserting Politics and Resource Allocation in the Debate: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"

The ageing of the countries’ populations, and in particular the growing number of the very old, is increasing the need for long-term care (LTC). Not surprisingly, therefore, the financing of LTC systems has become a crucial topic across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC...

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Autor principal: Gori, Cristiano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32124591
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.88
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description The ageing of the countries’ populations, and in particular the growing number of the very old, is increasing the need for long-term care (LTC). Not surprisingly, therefore, the financing of LTC systems has become a crucial topic across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In the last three decades, various financing policies have been carried out in different countries and the related international debate has grown. The latter has so far focused mostly on the different alternatives to collect economic resources to pay for care. The international debate needs now to focus also on other issues, so far less discussed. One is the politics of LTC: the degree and nature of the political interest in LTC, that affects the size and profile of public financing. The other is resource allocation: how different services and benefits are distributed among people with different care needs, that determines if resources made available are optimized. If we do not pay more attention to these issues – inextricably connected to policies aimed to collect funds – our understanding of LTC financing will remain inevitably limited.
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spelling pubmed-70546482020-03-09 Long-term Care Financing: Inserting Politics and Resource Allocation in the Debate: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan" Gori, Cristiano Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary The ageing of the countries’ populations, and in particular the growing number of the very old, is increasing the need for long-term care (LTC). Not surprisingly, therefore, the financing of LTC systems has become a crucial topic across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In the last three decades, various financing policies have been carried out in different countries and the related international debate has grown. The latter has so far focused mostly on the different alternatives to collect economic resources to pay for care. The international debate needs now to focus also on other issues, so far less discussed. One is the politics of LTC: the degree and nature of the political interest in LTC, that affects the size and profile of public financing. The other is resource allocation: how different services and benefits are distributed among people with different care needs, that determines if resources made available are optimized. If we do not pay more attention to these issues – inextricably connected to policies aimed to collect funds – our understanding of LTC financing will remain inevitably limited. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7054648/ /pubmed/32124591 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.88 Text en © 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Long-term Care Financing: Inserting Politics and Resource Allocation in the Debate: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
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title_full_unstemmed Long-term Care Financing: Inserting Politics and Resource Allocation in the Debate: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_short Long-term Care Financing: Inserting Politics and Resource Allocation in the Debate: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_sort long-term care financing: inserting politics and resource allocation in the debate: comment on "financing long-term care: lessons from japan"
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32124591
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.88
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