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Universal Health Coverage, Long-Term Care, and Funding in an Aging Era

In: Universal Health Coverage

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  • Aida Isabel Tavares
  • Pedro Ferreira

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Universal health coverage has been gaining a wider attention since the beginning of the 2000s, and it has become an ideological reference for health systems across the world. Funding universal health coverage has been a major challenge faced by governments. Not only funding has to be efficient to guarantee people's access to health services when they are needed, but also it has to ensure equity across people in the country. Aging implies a new constraint to funding as more people contribute less to the collection of financial revenues and more people are in need of healthcare, due to morbidity and end-of-life needs. This chapter aims to present the concept of universal health coverage and LTC and also to discuss how it may be financed under the current scenario of demographic aging and increasing demand for long-term care.

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  • Aida Isabel Tavares & Pedro Ferreira, 2019. "Universal Health Coverage, Long-Term Care, and Funding in an Aging Era," Chapters, in: Aida Isabel Tavares (ed.), Universal Health Coverage, IntechOpen.
  • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:205491
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89618
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    Keywords

    universal health coverage; long-term care; funding; aging;
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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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