http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from AHPPen-usPublic domainhttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/60http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2163Global health disparities were the topic of a special event November 11th co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Center for Health Policy / Primary Care and Outcomes Research.]]>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2163?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2124A 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.]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2124?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2058AHPP 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."]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2058?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2055China Radio International interviewed Karen Eggleston, Asia Health Policy Program Director, about China's health care reform for the radio program "People in the Know."]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2055?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2023"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.]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2023?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1930The 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.]]>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1930?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1853The 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.]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1853?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1845On 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."]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1845?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1846The 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.]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1846?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1779The 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.]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1779?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1771Demographic 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."]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1771?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1733Dr. 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.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1733?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1644The 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.]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1644?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1643The 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).]]>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1643?http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1486Official 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).]]>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1486?