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Health Care for All: The Good & Not-So-Great of Taiwan's …

To counter wasteful medical resources, NHIA promotes a cloud-based data sharing system. Rolled out in 2017, the MediCloud System is used to trace doctor visits, medical procedures, drug prescriptions or allergies, catastrophic diseases and organ … See more

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Taiwan Has Raised Health Insurance Premiums. What …

WEBRaising health insurance premiums. Increasing health insurance premiums has been a hot topic for quite some time. At the start of the year, the government raised …

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Will Healthcare Bankrupt Taiwan

WEBThe facts are stark. Taiwan has done an exemplary job improving general metrics of public health, and life expectancy now averages 80 years – 77 years for men, …

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How Badly Are Taiwan’s Doctors and Nurses Overworked …

WEBTaiwan’s workers work one of the longest hours among the advanced countries and in the world (see red bar in chart below). Similarly, Taiwan’s health and …

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Reforming Taiwan’s National Health Insurance System: …

WEBThis is the first part of a series on reforming Taiwan’s National Health Insurance system. Lately there have been calls to raise Taiwan’s National Health …

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Is Taiwan’s Healthcare Ready for Telemedicine After Its …

WEBCovid-19 has forced healthcare providers to use and promote telemedicine.Patients seeking routine checks can avoid the risk of traveling to hospitals …

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Taiwan Enters Top 10 in Bloomberg Health Care Efficiency …

WEBHealth care in Taiwan remains one of the best in the world for your money, according to Bloomberg’s annual ranking of health care efficiency. At ninth place, …

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How Globalization Changes How Disease Spreads

WEBThese days we can get from most remote villages anywhere to home in 36 hours. And migrating humans can certainly carry microbial “passengers”. This means …

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4 Questions About Air Pollution and Your Health

WEBAir pollution includes chemicals humans put into the atmosphere and chemicals released by natural events. For example, forest fires are a large source of air …

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How Healthy is Taiwan's Fitness Industry

WEBThe result has been a 26 percent increase – from 460,000 to 580,000 – in the number of gym-goers in Taiwan from 2011 to 2014, according to IRHSA. The …

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Low Government Medical Expenditure Are Exploiting Taiwan’s …

WEBAs such, Taiwan’s low health expenditure has resulted in Taiwan’s doctors and nurses earning suppressed and low salaries. Countries with higher government …

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Taiwan Primes for Old Age Apocalypse with Long-Term Care Plan

WEBFrom January to May this year, 58,000 people applied for long-term care services, an annual increase of more than 69 percent compared with the same period a …

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Is Cheap Healthcare Hurting Taiwan

WEBEdward White is a former editor of The News Lens International. Healthcare in Taiwan is famously cheap, convenient and universal. Visits to the doctor cost about …

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How Medical Missionaries Helped Quash Disease in Taiwan

WEBIn the 1920s, Japanese policy shifted from suppression by medical means to eradication of disease vectors. Communities were mobilized to destroy the habitats of …

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Taipei Entrepreneurs Hub

WEBTaipei Entrepreneurs Hub (TEH) is a community service platform operated by the Department of Economic Development of Taipei City Government (TCG) for the …

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Comprehensive Sex Education Remains Controversial in the …

WEBWhat you need to know. Advocates for comprehensive sex education say the lack of lessons for many youths is one of the reasons one out of 10 births in the …

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INTERVIEW: Wanggo Gallaga on Being HIV Positive in the Philippines

WEBWanggo Gallaga, son of critically acclaimed filmmaker Peque Gallaga, was working as the features editor for a college magazine when he learned he was HIV …

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PHILIPPINES: Fear and Whispers Swirl amid HIV Epidemic

WEBIn August 2017, the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) announced that the country has the fastest growing rate of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) …

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