Home-based long-term care [[electronic resource] ] : report of a WHO Study Group

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (42 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.14
• Soggetto topico: Long-term care of the sick; Home-based family services
• Note generali: "WHO Study Group on Home-based Long-Term Care, Ma'ale Hachamisha, Israel, 5-10 December 1999:--P. v.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; 1. Introduction; 2. Target groups, scope and elements of home-based long-term care; 3. Home-based long-term care in health and social systems; 4. Financing of long-term care; 5. Material resources; 6. Human resources; 7. Conclusions; 8. Recommendations; Acknowledgements; References; Annex 1; Definition of integrated health services; Annex 2; Integrating home-based long-term care into the health and social system; Annex 3; Availability of material resources for home-based long-term care incountries at different stages of economic development
• Sommario/riassunto: Records the conclusions and recommendations of a study group commissioned to explore the use of home-based care as a strategy for coping with the growing number of individuals in need of long-term care. Addressed to policy-makers the report responds to striking demographic and epidemiological changes that have created an urgent need to expand the availability of cost-effective chronic care. These changes include the growing population of elderly persons and the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on social networks and health services. With these problems in mind the report aims to help policy-make
• Titolo autorizzato: Home-based long-term care
• ISBN: 1-280-04126-9; 9786610041268; 92-4-068649-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783081503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; ; 898.