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iNewsweek: China’s village medicine – how did we get here?

In an interview with iNewsweek (Chinese: 中国新闻周刊), Dr. Winnie Yip discusses the historical transition in China’s health system towards its current hospital-centric care delivery model. Prior to China’s health reforms, village-level doctors were the main providers of patient care. The quality of services provided by these village doctors was highly variable, and many of them exhibited profit maximization behavior by limiting provision of services with lower subsidies. This began to change…

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HCHP Newsletter – China Health Connection: Issue 2

The second issue of the Harvard China Health Partnership’s newsletter China Health Connection has been released. This newsletter brings readers the latest news 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 discusses HCHP’s work on ageing in China, the research we showcased at the 2021 Congress of the International Health Economics…

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New Publications on Chronic Disease Management

Healthcare in Rural China

The management of chronic disease and its economic impact on households in rural China have been the focus of three articles recently published by our team based on our collaboration with the primary health care project of the National Health Commission and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Stronger primary care management of chronic disease was found to decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and this reduce financial burden. Chen, Siyuan, Wuping Zhou,…

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Yip Presents at Maternal and Child Health Forum Marking Lancet Commission Launch

On May 28th, 2021, Professor Winnie Yip, Faculty Director of the Harvard China Health Partnership, shared her research on the progress and gaps in China’s health reform efforts at the opening session of the 2021 International Forum on Maternal and Child Health. This event helped mark the launch of The Lancet Commission on RMNCAH (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health) in China. In her presentation, Dr. Yip highlighted the…

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HCHP Partners Host Social Health Insurance Forum

Multi-tiered Social Health Insurance Forum at Fudan University On March 27th, Harvard China Health Partnership collaborators at Fudan University hosted an in-person forum in Shanghai to explore strategies for building an effective multi-tiered health insurance system in China by leveraging commercial insurance to supplement existing social health insurance programs. Dr. Winnie Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, joined the forum virtually to share approaches other countries have employed…

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Global Health Systems: Fixing the Underlying Problems of the Broken American Health System (Chinese)

***This event was hosted in Chinese on March 9, 2021; a link to the event recording can be found in the “Resources” section below. More information about the English-language encore event held on April 1, 2021 is available here.*** Global Health Systems Series As countries seek to improve the way their health systems function, international approaches to reform serve as an important source of lessons for achieving outcomes and avoiding…

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Wary of coronavirus vaccines, some Chinese citizens are ‘opting out’ (Prof. Winnie Yip quoted in The World)

Countries across the globe are wrestling with the complexities of rolling out vaccination programs, but as Dr. Winnie Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, shared with The World, “The fact that China was able to control [the pandemic] allows them to have a slower schedule on the vaccine.” At the same time, China’s relative success in curbing the spread of COVID-19 may ultimately complicate its long-term vaccination efforts. Some…

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New Publication: Time Well Spent Versus a Life Considered: Changing Subjective Well-Being in China

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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China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era

The Harvard China Health Partnership and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies co-organized a forum with Wuhan University on November 11, 2020 entitled “China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era.” Organized in two sessions underscoring the pandemic’s lingering effects on public health and the global economy, the event drew 300 people attending in-person, over 100 members of the international community attending on-line, and over 170,000 attending on-line from China.…

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COVID-19 and Its Impact on Mental Health in China, India, and United States

What are the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health for patients, families, and practitioners in the world’s three largest countries–China, India and the United States? Panelists shared experience and current research addressing these questions while also reflecting on the challenges of their countries’ mental health care systems in providing care for mental health patients. Speakers Moderator: Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social…

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