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A Tale of Two Systems: The Impact of Universal Health Coverage on Financial Risk Protection in Taiwan and South Korea
May 10, 2016
Abstract:One of the key objectives of introducing a compulsory health insurance is to provide citizens, regardless of socioeconomic status, with financial risk protection against unexpected...
Why the United States Spends So Much More on Health Care than Other Countries: Economic, Institutional and Political Perspectives
June 5, 2014
Abstract: The United States spends over 17 percent of GDP on health care; the next six highest countries spend over 11 percent.
Albie Sachs Workshop
June 27, 2013
The event will be a dialogue with Justice Sachs about contemporary human rights challenges in South Sfrica and the role South Africa plays in the region.
Health and Human Rights in South Africa Today
June 27, 2013
Justice Sachs will deliver the keynote address for Summer Session's Human Rights Intensive in CEMEX Auditorium on Wednesday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Prison Hunger Strikes and Globalizing the Anti- Apartheid Struggle
April 26, 2013
AbstractIn 1989 more than 700 South African political prisoners went on indefinite hunger strike to protest their detention.
The Spillover Effect of National Health Insurance on Household Consumption Patterns in Taiwan
May 3, 2012
One of the major aims of implementing a national health insurance program in Taiwan in 1995 was to provide financial risk protection to the country's 23 million citizens.
Patterns of Elderly Life Expectancy in Three Chinese Cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei
April 30, 2012
Life expectancy at aged 65 is remarkably similar in the three Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei, even though the cities differ in levels of socioeconomic development, health systems...
Mobile Development Meets Design Thinking
September 23, 2010
A class was given in the dSchool last spring.
Strict Liability for Medical Malpractice? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior in Taiwan
April 22, 2010
The extent and existence of "defensive medicine" -- excessive medical care to defend a physician against malpractice claims -- is a perennial subject of both policy and academic debate. For...
Human Trafficking and Health Care [Physicians and Human Rights Event]
March 8, 2010
MED 242: Physicians and Human Rights Winter 2010 Lecture Series
Technology for Developing Regions
February 12, 2010
AbstractThe historic focus of development has rightfully been on macroeconomics and good governance, but technology has an increasingly large role to play. In this talk, I review several novel...
Grassroots Empowerment: Can Models from India Spark a Revolution in Healthcare Delivery in China?
January 14, 2010
In the four years since a State Council think tank, the Development Research Center, bluntly declared the failure of three decades of healthcare reform, China has placed a high political priority...
FrontlineSMS:Medic - Democratizing mHealth for the Developing World on Their Terms Not Ours
October 1, 2009
FrontlineSMS:Medic is a Palo Alto based tech nonprofit startup that began in early 2009 with several Stanford undergraduates and graduate students at the helm.
The Forgotten Frontline: Effects of War on Women
March 14, 2008
For women, the dangers of war go far beyond the violence of combat.
Treating Tuberculosis in North Korea: NGO Humanitarian Aid and US-DPRK Reconciliation
April 19, 2007
Dr. Linton was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and grew up in Korea, where his father was a third generation Presbyterian missionary.
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Lanhee J. Chen Affiliated Faculty David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution, Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer, Public Policy Program 