“Health System Six-Lesson Series” Hosted By ACCESS Health China Comes To An End
The ACCESS Health China team has organized a six-lesson series of Health System course, covering the national planning of health systems, China’s health system, health system reform, Health China 2030, and the value of healthcare under the existing health system. There is …
ACCESS Health and SafeCare Join Forces To Improve Healthcare in India
ACCESS Health has teamed up with SafeCare, a standards based, digital quality improvement platform, to improve the quality of care in India. In this international partnership, ACCESS Health will help facilities implement the standards-based methodology developed by SafeCare that empowers healthcare providers …
ACCESS Health Philippines Holds a Virtual Roundtable on Bone Health
With support from Amgen Philippines and moderated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ACCESS Health Philippines spearheaded its first virtual roundtable discussion on Bone Health on Dec. 17, 2020. Its main goal was to call for establishing a better ecosystem for Bone …
Elderly care: What Germany can learn from the rest of the world
Abstract: Sustainable elderly care becomes increasingly challenging in a rapidly ageing world. Being the third oldest nation globally, Germany is facing significant societal changes and demographic pressures. Bold and far-reaching reforms to revolutionise senior care are urgently required. Here, we review Germany’s …
ACCESS Health Philippines opens its 2nd Tuberculosis Clinic in Mandaluyong City
ACCESS Health Philippines, together with its implementing partner Innovations for Community Health, successfully opened its second Kalinga Health Hub in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila on November 25, 2020. This clinic will serve as a high-quality diagnosis and treatment facility featuring a centralized …
Announcing the Official Launch of the Health Futures WeChat Account
After more than a year of work, on July 21st, 2020, ASK Health proudly launched the official Health Futures WeChat account. The purpose of Health Future is to work with our industry partners to “promote value-oriented health system innovation.” This new public …
An Urgent Need To Reopen Medical Care For All
A shorter version of this article was originally published in The Hill. Each day in America and in most countries around the world brings with it a new story of crowded hospitals packed with panicked patients and exhausted health workers. But there is …
Universal Disease Screening and Treatment — The Egyptian Example
An interview with William Haseltine about the following article is also available here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915818 Thirty years ago, chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity accounted for less than 45% of the global disease burden. Today, they are the leading causes …
Can Home Care Workers Help Older Adults Escape Late Life Depression And Anxiety?
Conversations about the mental health of older adults frequently revolve around two things: Alzheimer’s and dementia. While it makes sense that cognitive disorders such as these would occupy a prominent place in the public imagination, the picture they paint of the mental …
Use of Standardized Patients for Healthcare Quality Research in Low and Middle Income Countries
This article, recently published by BMJ Global Health, notes that the use of standardized patients is becoming increasingly common as a means to measure the quality of care. The standardized patient methodology is regarded as a gold standard for quality of care …
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