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Towards a Resilient Healthcare System in Taiwan

WEBDuring the spring of 2021, when Taiwan experienced its first wave of major domestic outbreaks, the high COVID-19 case-fatality rate (CFR) of over 5% was an embarrassment to Taiwan’s healthcare …

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Taiwan’s Single-Payer National Health Insurance at a …

WEBWritten by Tsung-Mei Cheng. Chronic financial instability and the difficulty the government has with raising the premium rate to balance the budget aside, the NHI faces myriad other challenges, …

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Health for Whom, from Where, and by What

WEBWritten by Chia-Shuo Tang. This article is a story about Taiwan's multi-million US dollars health aid in an African country and its aftermath. It involves two hospitals, some doctors, several aid agencies, …

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Taiwan and Global Health – Taiwan Insight

WEBTaiwan’s health care system. Despite not being recognized by the WHO as one of the gatekeepers for global health, Taiwan has …

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Taiwan’s elections over, new hope for Taiwan’s healthcare

WEBIn the almost thirty years since, the NHI has looked after the health care needs of Taiwan’s population of 23.4 million with generous benefits at a cost of 6.6% of …

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Sustainable Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from …

WEBWritten by Tsung-Mai Cheng. 1 March 2020 will mark the 25th anniversary of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI), a government-run single-payer health care system that covers the health …

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Why Do We Have Poor Health

WEBIndeed, Māori health researchers Papaarangi Reid and Bridget Robson have noted that the weight of colonisation and ongoing colonial impacts have led directly to Indigenous health inequalities. In …

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Health Care for All Humanity

WEBWritten by Najee Woods (葉正忠).. Image credit: Health by GotCredit/Flickr, license: CC BY 2.0 “It is the purpose of the World Health Organisation to serve the …

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Healthcare in Taiwan – Taiwan Insight

WEBtowards a resilient healthcare system in taiwan written by chunhuei chi towards a better new normal: the solidarity of differences and cultural safety of public health written by po-han lee health issues facing …

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Towards a Better New Normal: The Solidarity of Differences and …

WEBWritten by Po-Han Lee. The ethical imperative of the human rights-based approach to public health requires the ‘acceptability’ (including cultural appropriateness) …

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THE CORONAVIRUS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR …

WEBHealth Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said that other countries wanted to know whether Taiwan could provide the standards and disease prevention policies for them to study. But each nation’s policies …

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TAIWAN, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE WORLD HEALTH …

WEBWritten by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley. When the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) 3.1 published a topical section on ‘Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the …

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Health Issues Facing Tongzhi/LGBTQ+ People in Taiwan

WEBA few Taiwan studies about tongzhi/LGBTQ+ health are situated outside the two most common themes discussed above. For example, Leung and Huang studied the …

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Taiwan’s Covid-19 Surge: From “Zero-Covid” to “Living with Covid”

WEBAs of 19 May 2022, the total cumulative deaths from Covid in Taiwan was 1,235, and in New Zealand, 973. Taiwan’s population, however, is more than 4.6 times larger than …

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health policies – Taiwan Insight

WEBWritten by Tsung-Mei Cheng. Time will tell how quickly Taiwan can bring the Covid surge under control. However, the fundamentals that worked so well for Taiwan before the …

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Taiwan’s participation in the WHO in the outbreak of the coronavirus

WEBWritten by Kai-yuan Cheng. Perhaps most fundamentally, Taiwan needs to make young Taiwanese believe that, despite our sad past and difficult present, going into global health as a Taiwanese is a promising career filled with opportunities and excitement. Building a global health-informed civil society will appeal to the new generation of …

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The Political and Economic Implications from Taiwan’s Covid-19

WEBHowever, the April 15th revised loosen 3+11 (3 home quarantine days plus 11 autonomous health management days) border control policy for the pilot and crew …

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Europe and America Cannot Learn from Taiwan’s Anti-epidemic Experience

WEBAfter the return of these public health experts, which were sent on January 12, the Taiwanese government listed the Wuhan virus as the highest-level infectious disease and opened their Command centre. Subsequently, Taiwan also became the first country in the world to ban flights from Hubei Province. These decisive actions for …

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The Global Story of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Italy, China …

WEBWritten by Daniele Mario Buonomo. The diffusion and practice of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an important issue both in the Chinese and Western worlds. …

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Health Justice in Diversity – Taiwan Insight

WEBhealth for whom, from where, and by what? story(ies) about a medical mission from taiwan to africa written by chia-shuo tang. falling through the cracks of care: southeast asian …

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Taiwan needs to maintain observer status at the World Health …

WEBConsequently, in 2004, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation (PL 108-235) requiring the Secretary of State to seek Taiwan’s observer status in the World Health Organization at every annual assembly. The legislation also specified that the Secretary of State “shall submit” an annual report to the Congress, in unclassified form, describing

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The Importance of Primary School Teachers’ Mental Health in Taiwan

WEBWhile teachers’ mental health status impacts the students’ wellbeing, it is worth noting that students’ feedback plays a crucial role in teachers’ emotions (Huang & …

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