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

Official 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 Comparative 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 asiahealthpolicy 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 comparative 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

The comparative 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 »