Choices in financing health care and old age security : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, and the World Bank, November 8, 1997 /

This volume contains the keynote address (delivered by Singapore ' s Minister for Health and for the Environment, Yeo Cheow Tong), six papers, and four comments prepared for the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore-World Bank Conference on Financing Health Care and Old Age Security, held in S...

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Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Prescott, Nicholas M, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998
Series:World Bank discussion papers ; no. 392
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Summary:This volume contains the keynote address (delivered by Singapore ' s Minister for Health and for the Environment, Yeo Cheow Tong), six papers, and four comments prepared for the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore-World Bank Conference on Financing Health Care and Old Age Security, held in Singapore on 8 November 1997. Conference participants addressed a looming problem for nearly every country, developing and industrial: how to deal with the implications rapidly aging populations have for the financing of medical care and income security for the elderly. Of special interest are the contributor ' s analyses of Singapore ' s unique, integrated approach to managing social risk, which is based on mandatory individual savings accounts. Singapore ' s pioneering model unifies medical savings accounts for acute medical care in old age with a provident fund for retirement income. While the lessons of Singapore ' s experience are of worldwide interest given current efforts to reform social security systems, the minister ' s keynote address highlights the continuing need for innovations to refine the basic model - calling for the development of a new approach to financing the growing problem of long-term medical care for the elderly.
Physical Description:vii, 101 p. : il.
Bibliography:Incluye bibliografía.
ISBN:0821342843