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Presented by, Jia Xiang, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University For many illnesses, patients seek advice from physicians, who signal the relative value of various treatment options. Patients then incorporate this information into their treatment decision, aware that it may reflect not just their own interests but the physicians’ as well. I characterize this interaction formally using a Bayesian persuasion framework and test the model’s main…

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Professors William Hsiao, John McDonough and Winnie Yip participated in the International Forum on Value Health Care Purchasing organized by the National Healthcare Security Administration, China.

10月18日至20日，由四川大学华西公共卫生学院（华西第四医院）、四川大学西部农村卫生发展研究中心、四川大学健康城市发展研究中心、四川省卫生经济学会承办，中国医药卫生管理大学联盟、中华预防医学会卫生管理分会青年委员会主办的2019医药卫生管理青年学者论坛暨中华预防医学会卫生事业管理分会青年学者沙龙于成都顺利召开，此次论坛的主题为“健康中国战略下的健康经济与政策”。四川大学党委副书记曹萍，中国医药卫生管理大学联盟秘书长张亮教授、中华预防医学会卫生事业管理分会青年委员会主任委员吕军教授，四川大学华西公共卫生学院（华西第四医院）副院长潘杰教授，以及来自美国哈佛大学、澳大利亚乐卓博大学、加拿大多伦多大学、荷兰特文特大学、北京大学、复旦大学、华中科技大学、南京医科大学、中山大学、山东大学、西安交通大学、四川大学、武汉大学等69所国内外知名院校和研究机构的卫生管理专家和青年学者共200余人参加了此次论坛。

Harvard Worldwide Week China Health Partnership Seminar “The glass can be seen as half empty or as half full,” remarked Dr. Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics and also Director of the school-wide China Health Partnership. Dr. Yip was sharing observations of the past decade of health reform in China to a packed audience of 90 students, researchers and faculty this past week. Dr.…

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In June 2019, the “Seminar on Ten-Year Health Care Reform in China: Review of Its Progress and Future Trajectory” was held with the CIKD of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC). The Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) is an independent non-profit institution directly affiliated with the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), which in turn is the national decision-making body on all important policies…

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Up through the early 1970s, the “Barefoot Doctor” initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to as the “Barefoot Doctors.” Julie Zhu was one of them. She was sent to the countryside from Beijing after high school and worked under the most famous Barefoot Doctor in China, Lee Sun, who was praised by Mao and whose stories were in…

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