Implications of International Experience for Building China's Long-term Care Insurance System / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective:To introduce several international long-term care insurance systems so as to provide references for building China's long-term care insurance system.Methods:Literature of International long-term care insurance system were reviewed to extract and summarize the content so as to provide suggestion and references for China's system construction.Results:It concluded 4 modes of systems for long-term care insurance including the private long-term care social insurance like Netherlands,the public long-term care social insurance like German and Japan,long-term care commercial insurance like America and national long-term care insurance like England.The advantages of different modes could be learned to form Chinese system.Conclusion:The long-term care insurance systems of Netherlands,German,Japan,American could be learned for our system construction,but they also had disadvantages.Therefore,on the basis of the foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses,the reasonable long-term care insurance system was formed.