The economic value of informal caregiving
The economic value of informal caregiving
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.18.2.182
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Memmott, MM
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作者：
Arno, PS;Levine, C;Memmott, MM
这项研究探讨了目前的市场价值的照顾提供无偿的家庭成员和朋友生病和残疾的成年人。我们使用大量的全国性数据，估计1997年非正规就业的全国经济价值为1960亿美元。这一数字使国家在正规家庭医疗保健（320亿美元）和养老院护理（830亿美元）方面的支出相形见绌。另外还列出了五个州的估计数。这项研究扩大了从微观层面的问题，个人照顾者试图科普的压力和责任，非正式的照顾，医疗保健系统的宏观层面，必须找到更有效的方式来支持家庭照顾者。
This study explores the current market value of the care provided by unpaid family members and friends to ill and disabled adults. Using large, national data sets we estimate that the national economic value of informal caregiving was $196 billion in 1997. This figure dwarfs national spending for formal home health care ($32 billion) and nursing home care ($83 billion). Estimates for five states also are presented. This study broadens the issue of informal caregiving from the micro level, where individual caregivers attempt to cope with the stresses and responsibilities of caregiving, to the macro level of the health care system, which must find more effective ways to support family caregivers.