Health Research Institute Reports Findings in Nursing Ethics (Ethical value and challenges of long-term care insurance): Health and Medicine – Nursing Ethics

2022 NOV 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- New research on Health and Medicine - Nursing Ethics is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Fujian, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Issues of the aging population and disability of older persons have been rapidly developing in China over the past 20 years. Since 2016, the Chinese government has been exploring remedies to alleviate social and family burdens and ensure the dignity of the disabled old persons by implementing long-term care insurance systems in a few pilot cities across the country.”

Financial support for this research came from Specialized Project of Fujian Medical and Health System Reform Research Association for Long-term Care Insurance.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Health Research Institute, “The purpose of this study is to present the current challenges faced by China’s long-term care insurance system and put forth suggestions for the future, based on literature research and the feedback obtained from its implementation in pilot areas. This paper conducts a theoretical study based on the principles of public health ethics. Since 2016, China has launched two batches of pilot cities for long-term care insurance. The analysis object of this study is the feedback on the policy implementation of the existing 29 pilot cities that participated. The relevant data involved in the analysis are from the authors’ field research and published literature on the analysis of pilot cities. The ethical value and importance of long-term care insurance policies in China are evaluated from the perspectives of policy philosophy and social individual interests. The results of this evaluation show that the core ethical values were not met in the development of China’s current long-term care insurance system. Moreover, distributive justice norms were neglected, and access to the system between different social groups and within the groups covered by it was unequal. This paper argues that long-term care insurance should not differentiate between urban and rural areas in allocating nursing resources. Additionally, it would be essential to build democratic supervision and manage public opinions by adopting open and transparent information-sharing policies.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Standards of disability assessments and treatment payment should be at par to ensure a balance between the rights and obligations of policyholders.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Ethical value and challenges of long-term care insurance. Nursing Ethics, 2022:096973302211289. Nursing Ethics can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Nursing Ethics - nej.sagepub.com)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Chen Min, Health Research Institute, 74551Fujian Medical University, Fujian, People’s Republic of China.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330221128905. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Nursing Ethics is: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England.

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