Professor Winnie Yip Visits The Centre for Spiritual Progress to Great Awakening in Hong Kong

As part of the project funded by the D.H. Chen Foundation to understand what constitutes meaningful aging for elderly in Hong Kong, and how culture and moral philosophy affect aging well, Professor Winnie Yip visited The Centre for Spiritual Progress to Great Awakening (SPGA) in Hong Kong in January 2024. SPGA is a nonprofit Buddhist organization that has trained thousands of volunteers to provide compassionate and comprehensive spiritual care services…

Professor Winnie Yip Visits Ningxia Medical University

Professor Winnie Yip, Senior Administrators, and Faculty of Ningxia Medical University   Professor Winnie Yip visited Ningxia Medical University on July 18 for a fruitful exchange and discussion. During her visit, she delivered a lecture on the concept, history, and international experience of people-centered integrated delivery systems. Following the lecture, she engaged in insightful discussions with the faculty and administrators of Ningxia Medical University, exploring the current challenges in implementing…

HCHP Partners Gather in Beijing to Discuss Ongoing and Future Collaborations

HCHP gathering in Beijing   After a prolonged hiatus due to the pandemic, the Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP) held its long-awaited in-person meeting. Professor Winnie Yip, Faculty Director of HCHP, rejoined Chinese partners from Peking University, Fudan University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Sichuan University, Shandong University and Southern Medical University in Beijing. At the gathering, HCHP partners discussed the current challenges faced in health policy and health system research, and…

Professor Winnie Yip Visits Tsinghua Vanke School of Public Health

Professor Winnie Yip, Dean Wannian Liang, and Faculty at Vanke School of Public Health   Professor Winnie Yip, Faculty Director of the Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP), and her team met with Dean Wannian Liang and faculty at the Tsinghua Vanke School of Public Health for a forward-looking discussion on China’s health policy and health system. Delving into their shared vision, the meeting explored the future of China’s health system…

Commentary: Managing the health of online care in China

The adoption of digital technologies in health care has vastly accelerated over the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic saw health care providers switch to virtual care options like telehealth. In the United States, in-person visits to Department of Veteran Affairs facilities declined by 55 per cent from March to May 2020, while telephone and video visits increased rapidly. A similar expansion of telemedicine use was observed in Europe. In China, the use…

Publication: Consumer choice and public-private providers: The role of perceived prices

We investigate the role of perceived price and quality on consumer choice for four different health conditions across public and private providers using a nationally representative survey in Malaysia. We estimate a mixed logit model and show that consumers value different dimensions of quality depending on the health condition. Furthermore, increasing perceived prices for private providers reduces demand for minor, more frequent health conditions such as flu, fever, or cough,…

Meaningful Dying and End of Life Care in China

Event Summary The medicalization of ageing has increased reliance on the use of medical treatments to prolong life. However, death represents an inevitable reality, raising important questions about what it means to provide people with a meaningful, quality death. On June 2, 2022, the Harvard China Health Partnership invited Dr. Jun JING, Professor of Social Anthropology at Tsinghua University, to explore this question in the Chinese context at an online…

Publication: Can a global budget improve health care efficiency? Experimental evidence from China

The Analysis of Provider Payment Reforms on Advancing China’s Health (APPROACH) project shifted the payment method of China’s rural health insurance scheme for county hospitals from fee-for-service to a novel global budget. APPROACH conducted a large-scale RCT of the global budget in 56 counties (22 million enrollees) of Guizhou province from 2016–2017. Applying randomization inference to claims data, we find a significant shift of inpatient utilization and expenditure from out-of-county…

HCHP Newsletter – China Health Connection: Issue 3

The third issue of the Harvard China Health Partnership’s newsletter China Health Connection has been released. This newsletter brings readers updates on the progress we are making across our research portfolio and the positive impact HCHP’s work is having on strengthening China’s health system. In this issue, Faculty Director Winnie Yip highlights recent research contributions spanning health systems, internet health, ageing, and health philanthropy; our third annual Executive Education Program for policymakers at…