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Regulating Long-Term Care Quality: An International Comparison
Vincent Mor
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Description for Regulating Long-Term Care Quality: An International Comparison
hardcover. An international survey of different approaches to the provision and regulation of long-term care for the elderly. Editor(s): Mor, Vincent; Leone, Tiziana; Maresso, Anna. Series: Health Economics, Policy and Management. Num Pages: 519 pages, 21 b/w illus. 33 tables. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 870.
The number of elderly people relying on formal long-term care services is dramatically increasing year after year, and the challenge of ensuring the quality and financial stability of care provision is one faced by governments in both the developed and developing world. This edited book is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of long-term care provision and regulation, built around a series of case studies from Europe, North America and Asia. The analytical framework allows the different approaches that countries have adopted to be compared side by side and readers are encouraged to consider which quality assurance approaches ... Read more
The number of elderly people relying on formal long-term care services is dramatically increasing year after year, and the challenge of ensuring the quality and financial stability of care provision is one faced by governments in both the developed and developing world. This edited book is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of long-term care provision and regulation, built around a series of case studies from Europe, North America and Asia. The analytical framework allows the different approaches that countries have adopted to be compared side by side and readers are encouraged to consider which quality assurance approaches ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
519
Condition
New
Series
Health Economics, Policy and Management
Number of Pages
519
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107042063
SKU
V9781107042063
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99-10
About Vincent Mor
Vincent Mor is the Florence Price Grant Professor of Community Health in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. His research focuses on the organizational and health care delivery system factors associated with variation in use of health services, and outcomes experienced by frail and chronically ill persons. ... Read more
Reviews for Regulating Long-Term Care Quality: An International Comparison
'The demand for improvements in the quality of long term care - from ensuring that care is at least adequate, through to raising standards of provision generally - has never been higher. Regulation plays a key role in this process, but regulation of long term care is a challenging and complex process, with a variety of ways in which it ... Read more