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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Meet Dr. Hao Zhang, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Part of an occasional series of windows into the lives of researchers on the Harvard China Health Partnership. Why did you become a public health researcher? There was no monumental moment. The decision came rather naturally after alternatives had been eliminated. Growing up, I had a lot of fond memories associated with the healthcare setting, as my mom is a doctor. But she…

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Meet Dr. Xuanyi (“Max”) Nie, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Part of an occasional series of windows into the lives of researchers on the Harvard China Health Partnership. How did you become interested in researching “medical cities”? I’ve always been interested in how humans interact with complex things. Health care systems constantly pose challenges to us as humans and people respond differently to the constraints of the built environment, thus shaping behavior.…

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