Browsing ST Lee Annual Guest Lectures – health policy in the Asia/Pacific region by publication year
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Health Care Financing and Universal Health Coverage for Low-and Middle-Income Countries in Asia
Published 2013-08-21Health care financing agencies and governments should implement various policy tools including payment systems, contracting, regulation, and accreditation to encourage health care providers to improve the quality of care ...Open AccessPresentation -
Health Systems and Population Ageing in the Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges and Policy Options for the Future
Published 2014-07-22Health care for the ageing population has surfaced as a critical issue in many countries that have undergone rapid demographic and epidemiological transition. As chronic and degenerative health conditions are expected to ...Open AccessPresentation -
Health Policy in East Asia: Responding to Demographic and Epidemiologic Transition
Published 2014-11-06Open AccessPresentation -
Setting fundable priorities for universal healthcare coverage: global concept, local applications
Published 2017-03-10Between 20-40% of the $7.1 trillion spent annually on healthcare is wasted (1). Development assistance for health makes up less than 1% of this (~$36bn) (2) – and if global health gains are to be made –as codified in the ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Public Health in this Brave New World
Published 2017-08-09Our world has changed dramatically since the 1950s. The pace of change has been so rapid that the last 6 decades have been dubbed as “The Great Acceleration”. This Great Acceleration will continue to dash forward but in a ...Open AccessPresentation -
The science that dares not speak its name
Published 2018-10-17Technology assessment, broadly defined as the evaluation and monitoring of relative effectiveness and cost in health care delivery, began with Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health ServicesOpen AccessPresentation -
STEP into UHC - Developing the health technology assessment unit of the Philippines - STEP - as an integral ingredient of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Published 2019-06-01The concept of cost-effectiveness as main criteria for procurement of new technologies was embedded in Filipino policy back in 2003, but with no clear implementing rules. The need for an objective decision-making process ...Open AccessPresentation -
How international approaches to the regulation and assessment of Digital Health Technologies might be applied in Thailand
Published 2023The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) at the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand recently commissioned landscape analyses from three countries (Australia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom) to ...Open AccessPresentation -
Health Systems Resilience - A First Nations Perspective
Published 2024-10-11Recent events and ongoing challenges, such as pandemics and climate change, demonstrate the need for more resilient health systems. Preparing, absorbing, recovering and adapting to challenges benefits everyone. We will ...Open AccessPresentation