Informal help in a local setting: The Dutch Social Support Act in practice

Eline Berkers, Mariëlle Cloïn and Ioana Pop

Health Policy, 2021, vol. 125, issue 1, 47-53

Abstract: The Dutch Social Support Act provides municipal social support for people that experience limitations in daily life and cannot rely on informal help from their social network to compensate these limitations. In this paper, we study whether the probability and intensity (number of services) of receiving municipal social support for daily limitations is affected by informal help by the social network (i.e. family, friends and neighbors).

Keywords: Municipal social support; Daily limitations; Local government; Netherlands; Informal help; Social network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.09.007

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