Investigators at Chongqing Technology and Business University Report New Data on Health Services Research

2020 NOV 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine - Health Services Research. According to news reporting originating from Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The growing demand for LTC (Long-term care) services for disabled elderly has become a daunting task for countries worldwide, especially China, where population aging is particularly severe. According to CSY (China Statistical Yearbook,2019), the elderly aged 65 or above has reached 167 million in 2018, and the number of disabled elderly is as high as 54%.”

Financial support for this research came from China Chongqing Education Commission Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project” Study on the pilot evaluation and optimization path of Long-term care insurance payment policy”.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Chongqing Technology and Business University, “Germany and other countries have alleviated the crisis by promoting the public LTCI (Long-Term Care Insurance) system since the 1990s, while China’s public LTCI system formal pilot only started in 2016. Therefore, the development of the public LTCI system has gradually become a hot topic for scholars in various countries, including China. This review has been systematically sorted the existing related literature to discuss the development of public LTCI (Long-Term Care Insurance).ystem form four aspects, namely, the comparison of public LTCI systems in different countries, the influence of public LTCI, challenge of public LTCI, and the relationship between public LTCI and private LTCI. We searched some databases including Web of Science Core Collection, Medline, SCOPUS, EBSCO, EMBASE, ProQuest and PubMed from January 2008 to September 2020. The quality of 38 quantitative and 21 qualitative articles was evaluated using the CASP(Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) critical evaluation checklist. The review systematically examines the development of public LTCI system from four aspects, namely, the comparison of public LTCI systems in different countries, the influence of public LTCI, the challenge of public LTCI, and the relationship between public LTCI and private LTCI. For example, LTCI has a positive effect on the health and life quality of the disabled elderly. However, the role of LTCI in alleviating the financial burden on families with the disabled elderly may be limited. Some policy implications on the future development of China’s LTCI system can be obtained. For example, the government should fully consider the constraints such as price rise, the elderly disability rate, and the substantial economic burden. It also can strengthen the effective combination of public LTCI and private LTCI. It does not only help to expand the space for its theoretical research but also to learn the experiences in the practice of the LTCI system in various countries around the world.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “It will significantly help the smooth development and further promote the in-depth reform of the LTCI system in China.”

For more information on this research see: Review of evolution of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in different countries: influence and challenge. Bmc Health Services Research, 2020;20(1):1057. Bmc Health Services Research can be contacted at: Biomed Central LTD, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland St, London W1T 4LB, England. (BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/; Bmc Health Services Research - http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Lu Zhang, Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtse River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, 400067, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Linhong Chen and Xiaocang Xu.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05878-z. 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.

Publisher contact information for the journal Bmc Health Services Research is: Biomed Central LTD, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland St, London W1T 4LB, England.

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