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...

• 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
• Subjects: FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA SALUD; SEGURIDAD SOCIAL; ASISTENCIA A LOS ANCIANOS; SEGUROS SOCIALES

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• Keynote address / Yeo Cheow Tong
• Health care for aging populations: issues and options / Jacques van der Gaag and Alexander Preker
• International comparison of medical savings accounts / Nicholas Prescott and Len M Nichols
• Financing health care in old age: a case study of Singapore / Kai Hong Phua and Yap Mui Teng
• Comment / Choong May Ling
• Social security financing policies and rapidly aging populations / Aviva Ron
• New models for old age security: experiments, evidence and unanswered questions / Estelle James
• Financial security in old age: a case study of Singapore / Linda Low and Aw Tar Choon
• Comment / Lim Han Soon, Aw Tar Choon
• Comment / Lin Han Soon
• Comment / Tom Snyder.