The effect of a subsidy policy on the utilization of community care services under a public long-term care insurance program in rural Japan

Health Policy

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-50

  Sato, Mikiya ^a   Hashimoto, Hideki ^a   Tamiya, Nanako ^a,b   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community care services; Home help; Japan; Long term care insurance; Socio economic conditions; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; JAPAN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 33646114295     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.07.018     Document Type: Article

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