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Interview with Prof. Sara Markowitz at Emory University
Full text linkDr. Sara Markowitz is an Associate Professor of Economics at Emory University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Markowitz’s research interests are on the economics of healthy and unhealthy behaviors, with an emphasis on the health of children and adolescents. She publishes widely in general and specialty academic journals, and serves as an editor of the Southern Economic Journal. Her research has been featured in media publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week. Markowitz has also won numerous research and teaching awards. She is a 1998 graduate of the PhD program in economics from the Graduate School of the City University of New York
ABOUT CHPAMS: FROM THE CHPAMS PLANNING COMMITTEE CHPAMS Leadership Transition
Full text linkDr. Zhuo (Adam) Chen, a senior health economist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced his decision to leave the Chair position of the CHPAMS Planning Committee. Professor Qi (Harry) Zhang was nominated and confirmed to serve as the Chair of CHPAMS Planning Committee. Dr. Chen briefly reviewed the success of CHPAMS in the past five years, including the Westlake Forums CHPAMS assisted, the founding and publication of the China Health Review (CHR), the establishment of the CHPAMS Best Papers Award, and the CHPAMS Monthly newsletter. Dr. Chen expressed his gratitude to everyone who have helped CHPAMS and volunteered his/her service to CHPAMS.
Challenges and Opportunities to Conduct Cancer Care Research in China: Experience from a Pilot Project
Full text linkBackground: Cancer has become the leading cause of death in China. Effective cancer control and population science research programs are desperately needed in China. The China Medical Board (CMB) funding has provided us with an opportunity to build a research team specializing in cancer care utilization and access research and demonstrate the usefulness of the accrued data. The CMB-funded project will describe patterns of cancer screening, incidence, and treatment in Shandong Province in China and enable the researchers to understand possible causes of disparities in cancer control in China. Findings: Although CMB projects do not provide salary support for affiliated American faculty, they do provide Chinese scholars in the U.S. an excellent opportunity to help improve health care in China. There are many challenges and opportunities in health care service and utilization research in China. For example, public data for cancer care research does not exist. We had to acquire secondary data from several governmental organizations andreconciled regional variations in data management. After acquiring all the data, we could create the most comprehensive cancer access, utilization, and outcomes research database to date in China and possibly expand this research in Shandong and other provinces. Students and analysts need to be trained to ensure the confidentiality of data linked to personal identifiers of patients and providers. At the same time, users need to learn how to manipulate and analyze large scale, messy, secondary data. Discussion: We hope that the key findings will identify innovative scientific opportunities to improve cancer control and reduce inequities in communities. We intend to prepare manuscripts and reports in Chinese to disseminate findings to communities, policy makers, health care providers, and the scientific community. From the policy perspective, this study is a demonstration project drawing policy makers’ attention to the importance of comprehensive cancer prevention and control data collection, both for accurate assessment and informed decision making with a high likelihood to effect desired change
Comments on the Draft of Traditional Chinese Medicine Act
Full text linkThe Draft of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Act was published by the State Council Legislative Affairs Office in June. This is an important step to formalize the governance of TCM. This paper briefly reviews the history of TCM, the advantage of TCM, and the challenges towards TCM. The commentary highlights the needs in the education, research, and regulation of TCM in China.
Medical hierarchy in professional ranking and its implications in China
Full text linkMedical hierarchy is a system where health professionals are ranked according to certain criteria. While hierarchy helps identify the seniority and mentorship to which junior practitioners can refer, it can also become a barrier in medical practice and sometimes lead to undesirable perceptions and consequences for both medical professionals and patients. Physicians in Denmark perceived the hierarchical position as a major determinant of influence on technical and ethical decisions.1 German physicians complained about the monarchy-like system in clinical positions that led to a negative working atmosphere and reduced health-related quality of life among young physicians.2 Srivastava3, drawing from the author’s own medical practice in the US, showed that blind adherence to hierarchy defined by medical specialties could lead to disastrous outcomes
ABOUT CHPAMS: CHPAMS Sets a New Stage
Full text linkCHPAMS turns to a new page in the last quarter of 2014. With China Medical Board (CMB)’s strong support, CHPAMS started to build a sustainable infrastructure. Coincidentally with the national day of China, CHPAMS was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization and registered in the State of Virginia in the U.S. on October 1, 2014. The new bylaw was adopted on the same day. Under the governance of the new bylaw, anybody who subscribes the CHPAMS email list will automatically become our non-voting members. CHPAMS will initiate a new registration process to upgrade the status to voting members. After an open nomination process, seven members of CHPAMS were appointed as the first Board of Directors. To see their biographies, please visit our newly designed website at www.chpams.org.