Asia Healthcare Blog recently agreed on a partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). You may have noticed that several of our recent articles have focused on lectures given at various CCS events. We consider ourselves fortunate to have developed this partnership, and we like to think that it partly reflects [...]

This past Tuesday, I attended another excellent Noon Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). I am a very biased observer, of course, since my graduate program is administered and run by CCS, so feel free to sprinkle a few grains of sea salt on the page when reading. Affiliations [...]

If one cannot go small, and one cannot go big in the China hospital market, what’s left? The answer, whatever the right one(s) turn(s) out to be, hinges on thinking about whole systems rather than single organizations.

I attended another fantastic lecture at the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies. Any budding China scholars out there, or anyone thinking about pursuing a masters in Chinese or a PhD in some East Asian Studies discipline should consider Michigan just based on the quality and quantity of China scholars and experts that the [...]

There was a potentially very revealing piece in the China Daily today, where Sun Zhang, Vice President of the National Development and Reform Commission, the government body responsible for coordinating economic development and the body ultimately in charge of China’s ongoing health reforms. While the article is ostensibly about the NDRC’s recent move towards recruiting [...]

Two weeks ago, at the Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, I attended a lecture  by James A. Benn, an Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Department at McMaster University. Mr. Benn’s lecture was titled “Tea and Other Decoctions for ‘Nourishing Life’ in Medieval China,” and it focused on the medieval China’s thriving health remedies market, where [...]

The latest infographic from our friends at Asia Trends Monitoring (ATM team) tells a story about Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, and how it fares in its struggle to provide basic services for its people. The numbers and information in the infographic are a combination of secondary data from the World Bank, primary data from the ATM poverty [...]

If you’re in the business of eldercare than you should find a way to read through the press conference transcript from yesterday MOH press conference. Since October is a senior citizen month, the conference focused on the MOHs efforts to address the problems of its aging population. Though I’m only seeing the release this morning, the MOH seems to have released fresh demographic statistics and policy goal details. I’ll be translating parts of this piece over the next week or so.