World Health Organization : Year 2002 ; World Health Organization, Noncommunicable Disease and Mental Health, No. 02.1: World Health Organization Lessons for Long-Term Care Policy

By Jack Habib

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 2002 ; World Health Organization, Noncommunicable Disease and Mental Health, No. 02.1: World Health Organization Lessons for Long-Term Care Policy
Author:	Jack Habib
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
The World Health Organization gratefully acknowledges the valuable technical and scientific leadership of the JDC-Brookdale Institute, and the support of the Marshall Weinberg Fund for International Collaboration, in contributing to the “Bridging the Limousine – Train – Bicycle Divide” Meeting on Long-term Care. This document was produced under the overall direction of Dr Miriam Hirschfeld, Director of WHO’s Cross-Cluster Initiative on Long-term Care, and prepared by Ms Jenny Brodsky, Dr Jack Habib, and Mr Ben Siegel of JDC-Brookdale Institute. The manuscript was edited, and the book was designed, by Ms Anne Bailey and Dr Ross Hempstead of Creative Publications.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Defining LTC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Target population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Link between dependency and need for assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Types of long-term care service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. The need for LTC policy in developing countries . . . . . .. . . . . . . 11 Table 1: Selected socioeconomic, demographic and epidemiological indicators relevant to the determination of Long-Term Care policy in nine developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4. Issues in the organization and provision of LTC services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Classification of key issues which need to be discussed . . . . . . . . 17 The role of the family and informal care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Human resource strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Strategies for achieving integrated/coordinated care . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Overall strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 i