Using unique longitudinal survey data that employed the Day Reconstruction Method to measure experienced utility (EU) in rural China, this study reveals striking differences in the trends for life satisfaction and EU. We find that reported life satisfaction changed little over the period from 2006 to 2009. However, EU increased significantly during the same period. The improvement in EU is mainly due to more positive feelings about specific activities rather…
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Applications Open: 2021-22 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship
Professors Winnie Yip and Arthur Kleinman will lead an interdisciplinary research collaboration Meaningful Ageing and End of Life in China: A Multidisciplinary US-China Collaboration. The research group for this collaboration will conduct in-depth study and analyses to understand what constitutes a meaningful life for older people in China and what policies and actions can be designed to advance this objective. The annual An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship offered through Harvard University’s Fairbank…
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Masks Against the Coronavirus (Prof. Winnie Yip interviewed by BBC News)
In an interview with Spanish-language BBC News Mundo (part of the BBC World Service’s foreign language offerings), Dr. Winnie Yip discusses the impact personal actions can have on broader social well-being and explores differences in the attitudes seen across the United States and Asia in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Dr. Yip was in Hong Kong in January when information about COVID-19 began to spread and noticed that media outlets…
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New Publication: A Tale of Transition: Trends of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Impoverishment in Urban China, 1986-2009 (Health Systems & Reform)
From 1986 to 2009, China’s health system reform first adopted a market-oriented approach and later reemphasized the role of the government starting from 2002. China’s oscillating health care financing policies present us a unique opportunity to examine the consequences of government-led financing and market-oriented financing measures. This study uses the Urban Household Survey, a diary data in China that covers the period of 1986 to 2009 to examine the long-run…
New Publication: Long-term care in China (The Lancet)
In China, the population is rapidly ageing and the capacity of the system that cares for older people is increasingly a concern. In this Review, we provide a profile of the long-term care system and policy landscape in China. The long-term care system is characterised by rapid growth of the residential care sector, slow development of home and community-based services, and increasing involvement of the private sector. The long-term care…
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Reflections on China’s Medical Reforms Post-COVID-19 (Prof. Winnie Yip interviewed by Xinhua News)
Recently, Dr. Winnie Yip was interviewed by Xinhua, the official press agency of the People’s Republic of China. In this interview, Dr. Yip reflects on the achievements and remaining challenges of the Chinese health system in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. She notes that with the challenges of an aging population and an increase in patients with chronic diseases, now especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese health system is…
COVID-19 and Telemedicine: Experience from China, India, and the United States
In many countries, telemedicine is playing an important role in COVID-19 pandemic response and may have an increased role in non-COVID-19 service delivery going forward. Join us for a webinar discussion of telemedicine in the three largest countries of the world–China, India, and the United States. Panelists will discuss the policies around insurance coverage, pricing, and quality of telemedicine and the role that telemedicine may have in the regular health…
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Harvard China Health Partnership Report 2019-2020
The Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP) advances people’s health and well-being in China by fostering partnerships in research and education and training opportunities for academics and policymakers. Read China Health Partnership Report, 2019-2020 for highlights of HCHP’s outstanding programming made possible by generous philanthropic support.
New publication: Perceived Competition and Process of Care in Rural China (Risk Management and Healthcare Policy)
Although there is much debate about the effect of hospital competition on healthcare quality, its impact on the process of care remains unclear. This study aimed to determine whether hospital competition improves the process of care in rural China. The county hospital questionnaire survey data and the randomly sampled medical records of bacterial pneumonia patients in 2015 in rural area of Guizhou, China, were used in this study. Our results…