China Health Program 中国卫生项目
Research 科研
China faces huge challenges in health sector reform during this current period of transition. There are no obvious answers to many of the questions which agency managers and jurisdiction officials are facing.
Our group has a strong commitment to research based teaching as well as contributing through research to answering some of these policy related questions.
Members of our group have made significant contribution in terms of research productivity in areas such as: management training needs, community health services, application of DRGs, use of pharmaceuticals, regulation of the market, health information, regional health planning, policy practice training needs.
In addition we emphasise the importance of research to our students and encourage them to undertake their own policy relevant and health services research during and after their formal training. Many of our masters students have published the results of such studies after completing their studies.
Most of our research projects are in collaboration with our Chinese partners and funded by international agencies, such as the World Health Organisation and the AusAID. Examples of the research projects include:
- World Health Organisation: Improving patient safety through a voluntary error reporting and learning system: an action research (in collaboration with Peking University Third Hospital)
- World Health Organisation: Involving patients in patient safety management in hospitals: A qualitative research on patient perceptions in Shanghai, China (in collaboration with the Second Military Medical University)
- AusAid: Improving the management of public hospitals (in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science & Technology)
- AusAid: Operational research on integration of NCMS and MA rural health financing schemes (in collaboration with National Institute of Health Economics)
- AusAid: Community health services (urban) clinical protocols and management standards (in collaboration with National Association of Community Health Services).
- AusAid: Policy development by comparative research into public health legislation standards (in collaboration with Chinese Centre for Disease Prevention and Control).
- AusAid: Policy study to improve primary health care access by the poor (in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science & Technology).
- AusAid: Human resources development and system design for urban primary health care (in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science & Technology).
- Beijing Health Development Fund: Community health services for infectious diseases in urban areas: developing a community-based management model and referral mechanism (in collaboration with Beijing Ditan Hospital).
- National Natural Science Foundation: Balance between individualised and population based quality of life assessment (in collaboration with Sichuan University).
- La Trobe University Faculty Research Enhancement Grant: Modelling China health insurance schemes.
- La Trobe University Faculty Research Enhancement Grant: Health policy needs assessment
Three books as part of a series of monograph have been published recently by the China Health Program.
- Lin V, Guo Y, Legge D, Wu Q Eds. (2010), Health policy in and for China (in English and Chinese). Beijing: Peking University Medical Press.
- Liu CJ and Grain H. eds. (2009). Working with information (in English and Chinese). Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House.
- Pei LK, Liu CJ, Legge D (2009). Australian health care system: universality under stress (in Chinese). Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House.
Click Student Publications to find a selected list of publications in Chinese written by our students .
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