1st Edition

Ageing, Long-term Care Insurance and Healthcare Finance in Asia

By Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This book uses a revised version of Kingdon’s multiple-streams framework to examine health financing reforms in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as long-term care insurance (LTCI) reforms in Japan and Singapore. It shows that the explanatory power of the multiple-streams framework can be strengthened through enriching the concepts of policy entrepreneurs, ideas,... Read more

1. Population Ageing and Financing Health and Long-term Care in Asia  2. China: The Urban Health Insurance Reform  3. Hong Kong: The Mandatory Health Insurance Reform Fiasco  4. Japan: The Long-term Care Insurance Reform  5. Singapore: A Compulsory Long-term Care Insurance Reform  6. Taiwan: The National Health Insurance Reform  7. The Republic of Korea: Integration Reform  8. Healthy Ageing in Asia

Biography

Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk is Assistant Professor in Public Policy and Global Affairs, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.