October 20th, 2009
Comparing health systems through the lens of pharmaceutical policy: A new book
A newly published book examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific, focusing on China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. Read more »
August 24th, 2009
Anti-smoking efforts in China: Matthew Kohrman interviewed by China Radio International
In the News: China Radio International on August 13, 2009AHPP faculty affiliate, Matthew Kohrman, was interviewed by China Radio International (CRI) on August 13th, 2009 about tobacco control in China. As CRI reports, "tobacco control is always a difficult subject for law makers... Still, there appears to be a growing movement -- including in China -- to control tobacco sales."
August 21st, 2009
China Radio International interviews AHPP program director about China's health reforms
In the News: China Radio International on August 21, 2009In April, China announced an ambitious health care reform plan that aims to provide universal access to basic care for all Chinese while enhancing population health initiatives, strengthening service delivery, improving risk pooling, and significantly increasing government funding for the health sector. China Radio International interviewed Karen Eggleston, Asia Health Policy Program Director, about China's health care reform for the radio program "People in the Know." The program, aired on August 21, can be heard online.
July 21st, 2009
"The Role of the Private Sector in Health" symposium held in Beijing
"The Role of the Private Sector in Health" was the topic of a full day symposium held July 11th at the Beijing International Convention Center. Read more »
May 3rd, 2009
AHPP sponsors special journal issue on health service provider incentives
The director of the Asia Health Policy Program served as guest editor of the International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics for the summer 2009 issue. Read more »
March 5th, 2009
Postdoctoral fellow in Asia health policy combines legal and economic expertise
AnnouncementThe Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce that Brian K. Chen has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy for 2009-2010. Read more »
March 2nd, 2009
Economic and social implications of rapid demographic change in China, Japan, and Korea
On February 26, 2009, the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford Center on Longevity co-sponsored a conference entitled "Aging Asia: Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and Korea." 
19 papers, conference agenda available
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Leading Pacific Rim universities collaborate on population health research
The Asia Health Policy Program hosted meetings of the public health research project of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute on February 24-25 at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Read more »
December 11th, 2008
Asia Health Policy Program launches working paper series
The Asia Health Policy Program has launched a new working paper series on health and demographic change in Asia with a working paper on informal caregiving for the elderly in South Korea.
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December 3rd, 2008
Stanford students learn about health and healthcare in East Asia
Demographic change and long-term care in Japan, chronic non-communicable disease in China, national health insurance in South Korea, TB control in North Korea, pharmaceutical policy in the region and global safety in drug supply chains -- these are some of the topics explored in a new Stanford course, "Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia." Read more »
October 27th, 2008
Gender Imbalance in China
AHPP, SCP NewsDr. Marcus Feldman of Stanford's Biology department discussed the sex-ratio imbalance and gender studies in China in the first of three colloquia on "The Implications of Demographic Change in China," co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford China Program. Read more »
July 17th, 2008
Comparative pharmaceutical policy and "prescribing cultures"
The July/August issue of Health Affairs, the leading U.S. health policy journal, focuses on China and India. The special issue includes an article on China's pharmaceutical policy by five contributors to "Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific," a book forthcoming in 2009 from the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center series with Brookings Institution Press. 
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July 16th, 2008
Does it matter how you pay doctors and hospitals? Evidence from the Asia Pacific
The organizing committee of the "Provider Payment Incentives in the Asia Pacific" conference -- including health economists from Shorenstein APARC, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Seoul National University -- reviewed submissions in June 2008 and accepted sixteen. The conference papers cover payment issues in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Tajikistan, the Philippines, and the US, examined from a range of disciplines (e.g., economics, health services research/health policy, public health, medicine, and ethics). Read more »
April 3rd, 2008
Eggleston and colleagues receive award for research on China's dramatic pre-1980 health improvements
Shorenstein APARC, CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsOfficial growth in Chinese life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks among the most rapid in documented global history, yet virtually no study has quantitatively assessed the determinants of those longevity gains. Recently Karen Eggleston received notice of an award from Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging--supported by the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Aging--for a study entitled "Health Improvement under Mao and Its Implications for Contemporary Aging in China." Eggleston will undertake this study jointly with colleagues Grant Miller (Stanford) and Hongbin Li (Tsinghua, PRC). Read more »
March 10th, 2008
Announcing the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum
The Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum to promote collaboration among social scientists studying health and healthcare in the Asia-Pacific region. Our website includes a link to the Forum, which provides a searchable database of researchers studying health and healthcare in the Asia-Pacific by discipline, topic, and country or region. With the active participation of colleagues throughout the region, the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum can be a valuable resource for research, teaching, and input to health policy discussions. Read more »
February 11th, 2008
Young Kyung Do Awarded Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy
The Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Young Kyung Do has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy for 2008-2009. Read more »
January 31st, 2008
Conference on Healthcare Payment Incentives in the Asia Pacific
AnnouncementThe Asian health policy program is pleased to announce that a conference on "Provider Payment Incentives in the Asia Pacific" will be held November 7-8, 2008, at the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing, P.R. China. We welcome empirical and theoretical research analyzing how reimbursement incentives shape health and healthcare behavior in the economies of the Asia-Pacific. We especially welcome evaluations of policy reforms and natural experiments impacting health service provider incentives. Please email papers or extended abstracts to Karen Eggleston by June 1, 2008. Read more »
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