Health policy
Scholarly Publications
Healing One-Fifth of Humanity: Progress and Challenges for China's Health System
November 2019
In the 2019 fourth quarter edition of the Milken Institute Review, Asia Health Policy Program director Karen Eggleston discusses the progress China has made since the 2009 reforms to its healthcare...
Understanding "Value for Money" in Healthy Ageing
November 2019
In the new eBook Live Long and Prosper?
Enhancing Financial Protection under China’s Social Health Insurance to Achieve Universal Health Coverage
June 2019
China started comprehensive health system reforms in 2009.
Other Publications
Disparities in health and health care in Myanmar
December 2015
Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing a complex political and economic transformation, from a long civil war and military regime to a peace process and democratisation.
Consensus Statement: Primary Health Care Reform & Community Health Service in China
July 2015
The conference report from the workshop, Community Health Services and Primary Health Care Reform in China, held on June 18, 2015 at the Stanford Center at Peking University. The report is written...
News
Pricing the Priceless: Measuring the Value of Healthy Aging
November 2019
The world population is aging faster than ever before and governments must confront the increasing burden of healthcare spending on their economies.
On China’s Dramatic Health Care System Improvements – and Its Tortuous Road Ahead
October 2019
Creating a high-quality universal health care system is an immense challenge anywhere, let alone in a country as large and diverse as China.
China’s National Health Reforms at 10
June 2019
In 2009, China launched comprehensive health system reforms to address challenges such as increasing rates of non-communicable diseases and population aging, problems with health financing and...
Events
The Effects of Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer Program
May 8, 2014
This study analyzes the effects of Indonesia's conditional cash transfer program on the local health care market in terms of price, utilization, and quality of care.
Overcoming Health Challenges Facing Mongolia: Medical and Entrepreneurial Perspectives
April 9, 2014
Average life expectancy in Mongolia is 65 years, much shorter than that of other East Asian countries such as South Korea (78.5 years) and China (72.5 years).
NHI Reform in Taiwan: Recent Developments
October 14, 2013
Co-sponsored by the Center of East Asian Studies, Stanford University Prominent health policy expert—Rachel Lu from Taiwan—will share her view on recent health policy developments in the region,...
Projects
Asia Health Policy Program Working Paper Series
The Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) working paper series promotes dissemination of high-quality social science research on health policy and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific region, drawing...
English
Population Aging, Child Health and Control of Infectious Diseases
The Asia Health Policy Program works with other researchers at Stanford and several countries of the Asia-Pacific to analyze prominent issues in population aging, child health, and control of...
English
Multimedia
From Compression to Expansion of Morbidity: Upcoming Challenges for Healthcare and Long-term Care in China
May 2017
Video and transcript from the presentation, "From Compression to Expansion of Morbidity: Upcoming Challenges for Healthcare and Long-term Care in China," on April 24, 2017, by Bei Lu, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales,...
Cognitive Decline and Household Financial Outcomes at Older Ages
May 2017
Video and transcript from the presentation, "Cognitive Decline and Household Financial Outcomes at Older Ages," on April 24, 2017, by Marco Angrisani, an economist at the University of Southern California, followed by discussion led by Kathleen...
Policy Challenges of Financing Longevity: Perspectives from Japan and the United States
May 2017
Video and transcript from the panel discussion, "Policy Challenges of Financing Longevity: Perspectives from Japan and the United States," on April 24, 2017, with presentations from Hirotaka Unami, senior director for policy planning and research...
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