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The Long-Term Care Insurance System in Japan: Past, Present, and Future

The Japanese population is rapidly aging. The proportion of people aged ≥65 was 27.3% in 2016, the highest in the world. Japan achieved universal health coverage for medical care in 1961 with the introduction of the National Health Insurance (NHI) system. However, increasing expenditure on inpatient...

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Autores principales: Iwagami, Masao, Tamiya, Nanako
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Medical Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681515
http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2018-0015