Should the provision of home help services be contained?: Validation of the new preventive care policy in Japan

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ishibashi, Tomoaki ^a,b   Ikegami, Naoki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOME CARE AGENCIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955072052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-224     Document Type: Article

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