Study Data from Shandong Agricultural University Update Understanding of Public Health (Evaluation of China’s long-term care insurance policies): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2024 APR 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Data detailed on public health have been presented. According to news reporting from Shandong Agricultural University by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “IntroductionIn response to the increasing demand for long-term care services for older people, the Chinese government has launched a pilot program for long-term care insurance (LTCI) since 2016.”

Funders for this research include National Social Science Fund of China.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Shandong Agricultural University: “The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of this program in China and provide recommendations for the future development and expansion of the LTCI system. MethodsWe developed a comprehensive evaluation framework to assess these LTCI policies implemented in all 49 pilot cities in China. ResultsBased on our evaluation, the average assessment score for the LTCI program across all pilot cities was 71.8 points, with scores ranging from 57.5 to 92.5 points in these cities. Furthermore, most of the pilot cities achieved higher scores in the fact-based assessment compared to the value-based assessment. DiscussionThe results suggested that the overall pilot effect regarding LTCI was favorable, but there were significant regional disparities. Moreover, in most of pilot cities, current LTCI policies were designed to alleviate both the financial burden and the burden of caring for people with disabilities that families faced.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “However, some challenges still remained, such as the lack of community and home-based care services, the need to expand the coverage of insurance, and the importance of diversifying funding sources.”

For more information on this research see: Evaluation of China’s long-term care insurance policies. Frontiers in Public Health, 2024,12. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1252817.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Qiang Li, College of Economics and Management, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Yiwen Chen, Yongmei Zhang, Xue Liu.

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