Home > Research > NIHA > Research : Comparative Healthcare and Social ...   Research   Comparative Healthcare and Social Policies for Ageing Population in Asia Listen to what the team aims and expects of their research project Phua Kai Hong Abstract The project proposes to study comparative healthcare and social policy issues in Asia, with special reference to comparative ageing societies in Japan and Singapore. It attempts to systematically collect, collate and review data from a representative cross-section of health and social care systems in the ageing societies of the Asian region in order: 1) to monitor regional experiences and identify key trends of on-going health challenges; 2) to conduct comparative analysis of health and social policy responses in the region; and 3) to provide the evidence and lessons to inform wider policy debates regarding sustainable health and social care systems development. Study Design: The process will involve collection and analysis of all available data of regional and country health and social care systems from the following - media, internet and library sources; health and health-related agencies covering the public, private and voluntary sectors, including programs of major international organizations; meetings and reports of key health and social policy speeches and social services and health systems research within the region. The study proposes to align their focus to a uniform set of comparative trends analysis and case studies in Asia: starting with Japan and Singapore, and later in comparison with Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Collectively, these fast- ageing societies drive reform policy initiatives in Asia, play an important agenda-setting role in regional forums on population ageing, and frequently act as forerunners that define regional responses to various regional health and social policy issues. Outcomes: This project aims to provide the baselines and parameters to conduct future comparative policy studies to improve care-giving for the elderly across the continuum of preventive, curative, rehabilitative, long-term and terminal care in Asian countries with diverse systems of provision, financing and regulation. These would include the comparisons of cultural forms of social capital and social support in relation to the aged on a comparative basis in social systems with different levels of public-private participation in health and social services. Lessons and best practices could thus be studied for their potential for the transferability from experiences of the more aged societies to other fast-developing ageing societies throughout Asia. Team Members Phua Kai Hong Associate Professor Health and Social Policy Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Sinagpore Yap Mui Teng Senior Research Fellow Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Singapore Goh Lee Gan Associate Professor Family Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore Singapore Thang Leng Leng Associate Professor and Head Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore Singapore Mika Toyota Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore Singapore

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