http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from AHPPen-usPublic domainhttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/60http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3307The Asia Pacific Observatory of Health Systems and Policies is a new regional initiative to promote evidence-based health policymaking in the Asia-Pacific region. The Observatory represents a unique partnership of governments, development agencies, and the research community working together.]]>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3307http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3263Tobacco now kills 90 times more people each year than HIV/AIDS in China. China's tobacco industry is closely tied to the global industry, and the Asia Health Policy Program is working to establish a new field of research on its history, beginning with a Mar. 2012 conference at the new Stanford Center at Peking University. Robert Proctor, a Stanford historian and author of a groundbreaking new book on the global tobacco industry, will take part.]]>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3263http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3200When Siyan Yi was a medical student in Cambodia 12 years ago, he volunteered with a collaborative government-NGO project to provide young women at high risk for HIV/AIDS -- the victims of sexual exploitation -- with housing, vocational training, medical care, and psychological support. Cambodia at that time had one of Asia’s highest HIV-infection rates. That rate has dropped by half, thanks to government policy measures, international NGO support, and the efforts of medical professionals like Yi.]]>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3200http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3140As lifestyles in China are changing, so too is the ability for people to care for their elderly family members at home. American healthcare companies are beginning to eye China as a potential market for senior residential facilities. Asia Health Policy Program director Karen Eggleston spoke with NPR about possible models for providing affordable, quality care for China's elderly.]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3140http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3053What influence might graphic warning labels have on cigarette sales? Matthew Kohrman is studying that question with experimental methods in Southwest China. Kohrman's research is generating much-needed data in support of the expansion of China's warning label system. Among the countries increasingly adopting graphic labels, the United States will require visual warnings on all cigarette packages by next fall.]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3053http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3039Can social, economic, and policy changes turn a period of growing old-age dependency into one of positive opportunity and growth in China? Qiong Zhang and Asia Health Policy Program director Karen Eggleston explore this challenging question in a recent China Brief article. They look back into several decades of China's history and also consider the current demographic picture of one-child families, gender imbalance, declining fertility rates, and a healthy and prosperous aging population.]]>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3039http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2951As an undergraduate student majoring in East Asian studies, Crystal Zheng spent two summers conducting extensive HIV/AIDS-related field research in China's Yunnan province and Shenzhen special economic zone. Zheng worked closely with primary thesis advisor Karen Eggleston, director of the Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. In the end, the project shaped the direction of her future academic and professional interests as well as contributed to potentially far-reaching program improvements for a key health policy challenge in China. In the short time since its 2007 founding, AHPP has empowered the research of numerous Stanford University students like Zheng -- emerging scholars, researchers, and thought leaders -- through its teaching and mentoring activities.]]>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2951http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2941Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death in the world today, including in China where cigarette smoking is a popular pastime. "The [tobacco] industry in China is run by the Tobacco Monopoly Administration, a central government administrative body created in the 1980s, also known as China Tobacco Corp.," said Matthew Kohrman in a February 2011 interview with NPR's Morning Edition. China nonetheless issued a nationwide indoor smoking ban on May 1. Speaking with Al Jazeera English on the first day of the ban, Kohrman predicted that Chinese citizens will increasingly comply with the ban even if in fits and starts initially. "It all has to do with implementation," he suggested. "It all has to do with changing the culture of smoking and people’s thinking about it—that takes time."]]>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2941http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2527AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman quoted in prominent media outlets about tobacco control efforts in China.]]>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2527http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2934The Asia Health Policy Program of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in conjunction with the Stanford Center for Population Research, announces the availability of 2011-2012 pre-doctoral research assistantships in contemporary Asian demography.]]>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2934http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/events/6950Open to the public (RSVP required)
Hai Fang, Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, University of Colorado Denver]]>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:43:36 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/events/6950http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23591Asia Health Policy Program working paper #27, 22 January 2012
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Clinical factors, especially presence of diabetes-related complications, appear to be the primary determinants of variation in inpatient costs for patients with type 2 DM in China. To mitigate the health costs increases associated with China's DM epidemic, policymakers should focus on cost-effective ways to manage patients in outpatient settings to prevent the complications associated with diabetes.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:15:06 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23548http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23547International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 23, No. 4, August 2011
While South Korea's universal health insurance system may have succeeded in substantially reducing financial barriers related to diabetes care, the quality of diabetes care is low overall and varies by education level. System-level quality improvement efforts are required to address the weaknesses of the health system, thereby mitigating educational disparities in diabetes care quality.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:16:12 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23547http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23546Journal of Institutional Economics, FirstView Article, December 2011
Health systems provide a rich field for testing hypotheses of institutional economics. The incentive structure of current healthcare delivery systems have deep historical and cultural roots, yet must cope with rapid technological change as well as market and government failures. This paper applies the economic approach of comparative and historical institutional analysis to health care systems by conceptualizing physician control over dispensing revenues as a social institution.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:37:41 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23546http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23545American Economic Review vol. 101, No. 3, May 2011
Although U.S. health care expenditures reached 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009, quality measurement in this important service sector remains limited. Studying quality changes associated with 11 years of health care for patients with diabetes, the authors find that the value of reduced mortality and avoided treatment spending, net of the increase in annual spending, was $9,094 for the average patient.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:16:35 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23545http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/23536Asia Health Policy Program working paper #26, January 2012
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