Global Health
Scholarly Publications
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.
How Do Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)-Related Complications and Socioeconomic Factors Impact Direct Medical Costs? A Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Southeast China
November 2018
Objective To evaluate type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)-related direct medical costs by complication type and complication number, and to assess the impacts of complications as well as socioeconomic...
Other Publications
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
Confronting South Asia’s Diabetes Epidemic
May 2019
Type 2 diabetes has become a major public health problem in South Asia in recent decades.
Financing Longevity: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging World
May 2019
People today can generally expect to live longer and, in some parts of the world, healthier lives.
Q&A with Postdoctoral Fellow Sarita Panday
April 2019
Sarita Panday’s personal and professional journey from a childhood in a small village in Nepal to an academic career that has taken her across the globe to Australia, Europe, and now Stanford is a...
Events
Region-based v. Distance-based Information in Emergency Health Risk Communication: Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
October 9, 2013
A tremendous amount of radioactive products were discharged as a result of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, which resulted in radioactive contamination of the plant...
Advancing Science to Reduce Premature Mortality Worldwide
October 1, 2013
Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, Stanford University Human life expectancy improved more in the last 50 years than in the preceding 5000 years.
The United Nations and a World in Transition
January 18, 2013
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented a free public talk at Stanford on Thursday, Jan. 17.
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,...
The Impact of Taiwan's National Health Insurance's 20-year Journey: How has the market responded and will respond?
September 2016
Audio and transcript from the Asia Health Policy Program seminar, "The Impact of Taiwan's National Health Insurance's 20-year Journey: How has the market responded and will respond?" on April 19, 2016, with Karen Eggleston, Jui-fen Rachel Lu and...
Impact of China’s ‘Zero-markup Policy for Essential Drugs’ on Patients, County Hospital Revenue and Government Subsidy Levels
August 2016
Audio and transcript from the Asia Health Policy Program seminar "Impact of China’s ‘Zero-markup Policy for Essential Drugs’ on Patients, County Hospital Revenue and Government Subsidy Levels" on April 5, 2016, with Yanfang Su.China implemented a...
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