Germany's Long-Term-Care Insurance: Putting a Social Insurance Model into Practice

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 375-401

  Geraedts, Max ^b   Heller, Geoffrey V ^b   Harrington, Charlene A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL SECURITY;

AGED; GERMANY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LONG-TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 0033654894     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00178     Document Type: Article

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