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Technology, e-health and telehealth key to combatting COVID-19

WEBE-health and telehealth apply information and communications technologies (ICT) to healthcare in providing a larger volume of services with reduced human contact.

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COVID-19 speeds up China’s ‘Health Silk Road’

WEBIn Brief. China’s Health Silk Road (HSR) first appeared in a speech given by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2016 in Uzbekistan. But the concept can be traced …

Category:  Health Go Health

How the Quad can help build a better Indo-Pacific via health …

WEBThe Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) launched a vaccine partnership in March 2021, marking the United States–India–Japan–Australia grouping’s first foray into …

Category:  Health Go Health

COVID-19’s impact on Indonesia and its global standing

WEBA. Indonesia’s capacity to steer a steady path to recovery from its current COVID-19 travails and secure the future of its development will, nonetheless, be under …

Category:  Health Go Health

China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East East Asia Forum

WEBThe introduction of the Health Silk Road (HSR) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) in 2015 as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shows the expansion of China’s …

Category:  Health Go Health

ASEAN’s divided response to COVID-19

WEBASEAN has been vital for achieving cooperation and economic growth in Southeast Asia. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, health security has become the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Indonesian health system reform no simple fix for inequity

WEBIn Brief. In 2009, the Indonesian government enforced mandatory health spending to establish equitable health systems and enhance social security. The Law …

Category:  Health Go Health

Drawing lessons from China’s healthcare development

WEBIn Brief. China has translated its economic development into improved social welfare. China’s quest for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all while lifting 800 …

Category:  Health Go Health

A challenging year for Papua New Guinea

WEBA. A. A. The outbreak of the pandemic posed a threat to PNG, as the country’s health services had been in decline for years and were struggling to cope with …

Category:  Health Go Health

A roadmap for Indonesia’s AI-driven healthcare East Asia Forum

WEBIn early 2023, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT, stunned the medical community by performing remarkably well on all three parts of the …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Why China and the United States aren’t cooperating on COVID-19

WEBThe mismanagement of COVID-19 in the United States consolidated China’s belief that the US model of public health crisis response is ineffective. As of late July …

Category:  Health Go Health

Indonesia's free lunch program is cooking up economic change

WEBAs each new government assumes office in Indonesia, there is a surge of fresh initiatives, notably centred on improving social protection programs. These …

Category:  Health Go Health

Healthcare costs leave Indonesians out-of-pocket East Asia Forum

WEBTo achieve health equity, the government must address a bigger issue — the high out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure on healthcare. Indonesia’s OOP expenditure …

Category:  Health Go Health

Pakistan’s floods highlight the climate-health nexus

WEBA. Between June and October 2022, more than 10 per centof the country flooded. Over 1700 people died, nearly 12,000 were injured and more than 2 million …

Category:  Health Go Health

Japan’s stubborn gender inequality problem

WEBGender inequality is a stubbornly entrenched problem for Japan. It ranked 120 out of 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index …

Category:  Health Go Health

Averting an air pollution disaster in South Asia

WEBAir pollution is the second highest risk factor for non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory diseases. …

Category:  Cancer Go Health

Vietnam’s COVID-19 testing scandal goes viral East Asia Forum

WEBThe company collected US$175 million in revenue from selling overpriced COVID-19 testing kits across Vietnam. Its sales reached US$6.6 million in Hai Duong …

Category:  Health Go Health

Philippine economic recovery in a rebalancing world

WEBA nationwide survey conducted in September 2023 found that about half of Filipinos or roughly 13.2 million families considered themselves poor— an increase from …

Category:  Health Go Health

The role of self-help in Japanese disaster management post-3.11

WEBA three-word mantra coined before 3.11 — jijo, kyojo, kojo (self-help, mutual help and government help) — became the central concepts of emergency management planning. …

Category:  Health Go Health