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Address sustainability risks in health insurance funds: generational actuarial balance and intergenerational equity perspective. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Qin Y, Ji W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the pilot reform of home and community-based elderly care services on the health of the elderly. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Qiu H, Yang X, Zhu Y, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Continued Policy Drift on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England: What Can Be Learned From the Shelving of Proposed Charging Reforms?

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021 the UK Government announced charging reforms relating to adult social care in England. The reforms would have ended a prolonged period of policy drift but were postponed in 2022 and cancelled in 2024. This paper reports on how different stakeholder groups perceived the reforms (and their delay), how they had been preparing for the ...
Philip Kinghorn, Rebecca Ince, Anne Hastings, Yvonne Birks, Denise Tanner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social capital in South Africa's minibus taxi industry: networks, trust, and challenges. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Klaas-Fobosi A, Fobosi SC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Perceptional Welfare Boundary for Migrant Families in China: What, Where and How?

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite recent reforms to China's hukou system, internal migrants in urban centres continue to face significant barriers in accessing welfare benefits and public services. This study introduces the concept of the perceptional welfare boundary to explain how welfare exclusion persists beyond formal institutional constraints.
Qiaobing Wu, Shirley Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Administrative embedding and employee health protection in China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Meng X, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Owning‐Renting Dichotomy: Owner‐Renting in Urban China

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines owner‐renters, households that rent their current residence while owning property elsewhere, using data from the 2013 and 2019 China Household Finance Survey. It explores how household characteristics influence owner‐renting and the drivers of this phenomenon.
Jinqiao Long, Can Cui, Liyuan Zhuang, Yunjia Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does public pension crowd out the participation of older adults in community volunteering? Evidence from China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Li ZY, Tang YY, Yang HL, Tang LL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Motives and barriers to blood donation among adults aged over 50 years: A qualitative analysis

Transfusion Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Ageing populations will increase demand for blood‐products and donors who supply them. While blood collection agencies (BCAs) typically target younger people to expand supply, recruiting donors aged 50+ is also a potential solution. However, few studies focus exclusively on this group.
Melissa K. Hyde, Barbara M. Masser, Rachel Thorpe, Aaron Akpu Philip, Amanda Salmon, Theresa L. Scott, Tanya E. Davison   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source