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2 - Performance measurement in long-term care in Austria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2014

Kai Leichsenring
Affiliation:
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Frédérique Lamontagne-Godwin
Affiliation:
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Andrea Schmidt
Affiliation:
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Ricardo Rodrigues
Affiliation:
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Georg Ruppe
Affiliation:
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Vincent Mor
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Tiziana Leone
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Anna Maresso
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Summary

The emerging Austrian long-term care system in the context of a federal constitution

In Austria, long-term care started to become acknowledged as a specific field of social and health policies during the 1980s, when a debate about long-term care allowances was initiated by people with disabilities acquired during their working age. The ensuing reform was marked by the legacies of the traditional Austrian welfare regime, by the federal constitution and the clear-cut distinction between the health and social care systems. The decentralized governance of health and social care in Austria has been based on two distinct principles. On the one hand, healthcare is a part of the social insurance system that is primarily regulated by the federal government, financed by contributions and administered by the self-governed health insurance agencies at federal and regional levels. The regional governments (Bundesländer) are involved as planners, managers and co-financers of hospitals (Hofmarcher and Quentin, 2013). On the other hand, the principle of subsidiarity has been applied to the areas of disability, social and long-term care with respective responsibilities assigned by constitutional law to the nine regional governments. Their activities are funded from general taxes that are centrally levied and distributed according to defined criteria. In practice, this means that, if patients have been assessed as being in need of long-term care, they have to rely on their own assets and/or means-tested social assistance from the local or regional authorities (Ganner, 2008).

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Regulating Long-Term Care Quality
An International Comparison
, pp. 33 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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