National Health and Family Planning Commission is Formed by Ministry of Health and National Population and Family Planning Commission

In Plan on the Reform and Function Transformation of State Council Organs reviewed and approved at the First Session of the Twelfth National People’s Congress,it proposes to integrate the responsibilities of Ministry of Health with the family planning management and service function of National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) by forming National Health and Family Planning Commission, in order to pay more efforts on maintaining the basic national policy of family planning, enhance the work of     

经济增长、医疗保健体系与国民健康——基于1991--2006年中国数据的分析

中国存在经济快速增长与国民医疗保健状况改善缓慢的矛盾，甚至出现了“看病贵”、“看病难”的公共难题。在梳理已有相关研究成果的基础上．选定5岁以下婴儿死亡率等代理变量来分析国民健康、经济增长和医疗保健体系建设的关系，发现三个变量存在一个协整，长期关系稳定，脉冲分析发现经济增长在长期对国民健康水平有显著的正向作用．但在初期却存在恶化国民健康的可能。个人付费为主的医疗保健体系对国民健康水平有显著的促进作用．但医疗保健体系的不完善一定程度上降低了卫生支出对健康的促进作用。稳健性检验进一步证明了结论的正确性．而且发现单纯依靠增加卫生资源消费并无法增进国民健康。在分析结论的基础上，本文提出了促进经济发展、保护环境、完善城乡公共卫生保健等建议。     

Health Benefits and Health Cost Savings Due to Pets: Preliminary Estimates from an Australian National Survey

American, Australian and British studies have shown that pet dogs and cats confer health benefits on their owners. This paper reports results from the first national survey (N = 1011) estimating the magnitude of these benefits. The survey showed that dog and cat owners make fewer annual doctor visits and are less likely to be on medication for heart problems and sleeping difficulties than non-owners. An important public policy implication is that pet ownership probably reduces national health expenditure. By linking sample survey results to data on health expenditure, the paper proposes a method of estimating savings. A preliminary estimate of savings of $988 million is given for Australia for financial year 1994--95.     

National Health and Family Planning Commission Pushes “Nine Prohibitions” in Medical and Health Care Industry

正According to NHFPC website,to strengthen moral construction of medical and health care industry,promote practices in accordance with the law and advocate honest medical practices,National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)and State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly released in December 26,2013"Nine Prohibitions to     

Pets and Human Health in Germany and Australia: National Longitudinal Results

The German and Australian longitudinal surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they were open to the objection that owners may have been healthier in the first place, rather than becoming healthier due to owning a pet. In both countries the data show that pet owners make about 15% fewer annual doctor visits than non-owners. The relationship remains statistically significant after controlling for gender, age, marital status, income and other variables associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed every year since 1984 (N  = 9723). Australian data come from the Australian National Social Science Survey 2001 (N  = 1246).     

Frequency of geographic mobility: Findings from the National Health Interview Survey

Age stands out as an important factor in multiple moves over a relatively short period of time. In addition, in the NHIS data whites show a higher tendency to be multiple movers than do blacks. It was also found that persons defined as interstate migrants moved more often than either intrastate migrants or local movers, but it is impossible to conclude anything more definitive about that relationship. In conclusion, mobility defined as a move rather than as a mover is clearly higher than estimates derived from five-year census data or the CPS, which only use the idea of a mover. On the whole, though, over three-year periods most persons do not move at all or they move and then return. Of those who do change residence, the majority move only once. By far the bulk of moves is accounted for by a relatively small segment of Americans. Of 34,000 moves reported in the NHIS, more than one-half were made by a small number of persons--4,400--who not only constituted scarcely one-fourth of all movers but were less than 1 out of every 11 Americans.     

中国大陆全民医保与台湾地区全民健保福利性之比较

中国大陆的全民医疗保险与台湾地区的全民健康保险在制度覆盖对象、基金给付范围和给付程度、基金实现效率及效果等体现制度福利强度的方面都有明显的差别,这与两地的经济实力、健保观念、健保管理经验和政治环境差异有关。借鉴台湾地区健保经验,大陆欲增强全民医保的福利效果,应把医疗保险发展成统一的全民健康保险,实行门诊和大病统筹保障;加快培育私营医疗服务机构,增加定点医疗机构并让民众自由就诊;建立以病人为中心的医院品质评价机制,引导医院改进服务设施,提高人本服务水平;加快基金按服务质量和病种付费的步伐,加速推行总额预算制;减少对公立医院的非建设性投入,加大对民众医保的投入。     

Differences in Health Outcomes Between Millennials and Generation X in the USA: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey

Population Research and Policy Review - Millennials (born 1981–1996) are the largest portion of the US workforce, but very little research has examined and compared their health behaviors and...     

Funding Strategies for Population Researchers: Perspectives from the National Institutes of Health

The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the application and funding process at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We target our discussion to demographic and population science at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), but the general strategies are applicable to social and behavioral scientists for all NIH funding opportunities.     

Is Chinese National Health Insurance Effective in the Face of Severe Illness? A Perspective from Health Service Utilization and Economic Burden

Over the past decade, health insurance coverage has expanded dramatically in China. Health insurance benefits, however, remain shallow or ambiguous. This study examines the effect of Chinese national health insurance policy on health service utilization and economic burden in urban settings using the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance Household Survey. We employ the Heckman selection model to correct for selection bias among hospital inpatients, and find that compared to individuals without health insurance, those with health insurance are more likely to be admitted to the hospital when their physicians recommended them to enter the hospital as inpatients. Health insurance is also associated with about 45.6 % decrease in out-of-pocket inpatient expenditures. Individuals with urban employee basic medical insurance see the largest decrease in economic burden, followed by individuals with urban resident basic medical Insurance, and those with new rural cooperative medical insurance.     

Improve People＇s Health and Promote Long-term Balanced Development of Population： National Meeting on Health and Family Planning Work 2014 was Held

正On February 10,National Meeting on Health and Family Planning Work was held in Beijing.The meeting had an in-depth study of the spirits of the Eighteenth CPC National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the     

India's National Family Health Survey provides new information on maternal and child health and AIDS awareness

Teams surveyed a sample of 88,562 households, drawn from 99% of the population of India in 24 states plus the National Capital Territory of Delhi, between April 1992 and September 1993 to collect a basic set of information on all 500,492 household members, with more details on the 89,777 women in the households who had ever been married and were aged 13-49 years. This National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collected information from the women on a range of health topics including child immunization, women's knowledge of AIDS, services and facilities use during pregnancy and childbirth, infant feeding and treatment for diarrhea, and infant, child, and maternal mortality. Levels of infant and child mortality declined in India, but 8% of all children still die before their first birthday and 11% die before reaching age 5. As for maternal mortality, there are an estimated 420 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births annually. That rate implies that at least 100,000 Indian women die each year due to causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Survey results indicate the need to strengthen vaccination programs and teach women about proper infant feeding practices. They also highlight the need to increase antenatal care and other medical services. In all of these areas, the NFHS results indicate wide variation among India's regions and states. Furthermore, a general lack of AIDS awareness suggests that the government's AIDS awareness campaign, relying primarily upon electronic media, has not yet reached the majority of India's population.     

Identifying Critical Factors of Sustainable Healthcare Institutions’ Indicators Under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance System

Taiwan’s healthcare institutions are increasingly being challenged under the various reforms undertaken by the National Health Insurance System in recent years. Aims to sustainable development is already considered as a major task for sustainable healthcare institutions, hence, identifying the indicators used in evaluation of the improvements towards sustainable healthcare is crucial in ensuring a better quality of life and well-being for Taiwan people. This research data were collected using the causal relationships among nineteen criteria and examined by decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method. The method with an expert’s interview provides a clear and transparent approach to analyze the cause and effect findings within criteria. Findings show that the critical factor; corporate governance is a very important part of the business strategy and factor of clinical performance is in particular one of the key criteria for sustainable healthcare institutions. Results also indicated that employ a suitable co-payment system should comply with the medical triage system for therapy, which may increase the effective utilization of medical resources. These results identified specific social factors related to the developed indicators that managers should consider the diversification of sustainable management. The identification of these factors can contribute to more integrative social analyses to improve a better quality of life.     

The Measurement of Socio-Economic Status: Investigation of Gender-and Age-Specific Indicators in Australia: National Health Survey 1995

Objective: To investigate thecorrelations between age- and gender-specificmeasures of socio-economic status versus healthstatus as measured by the SF-36. Design: Population based study. Participants: 38187 people aged between18 to 79 years who participated in the NationalHealth Survey in 1995. Results: Factor analysis producedconsistent results that were interpreted interms of five conceptually meaningful domains(employment, housing, migration, family unitand education). The relative rank of thefactors differs between groups and in somecases factor composition requires items to beadded or deleted from the conceptual domains. Conclusions: Age- and gender-specific SESscores based on these factors had strongerassociations with the physical and mentalcomponents of SF-36 than either an area basedindex or scores derived from males aged 40–44years. Overall the results supported thehypothesis that SES measures composed of socialand demographic items exhibit important age-and gender-specific differences which arerelevant for health.     

Gay male, lesbian and bisexual health-related research funded by the National Institutes of Health between 1974 and 1992

Health-related problems among lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men require research before solutions to them can be identified. This paper describes NIH sponsored research listing homosexuality as a primary or secondary issue between 1974 and 1992. Homosexual projects unrelated to HIV and excluding capitol funding averaged only $532,000 per year compared to about $20 million per year since 1982 for HIV projects. Considering the range of health threats to these communities and the amounts needed to deal with HIV alone, current funding is clearly inadequate. Community members, scientists, experts, and others need to take action if appropriate research is to be done and the health needs of these groups are to be addressed.     

Health and Health Care

Social Indicators Research - Quality of life in the area of health and health care is measured in terms of inputs, throughputs and outcomes in Korea. The national healthinsurance program has...     

Release of “Provisions on Main Functions, Internal Bodies and Staffing” of National Health and Family Planning Commission

Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and with regard to the plan for institutional reform and functional transformation of the State Council,the work of"Provisions on Main Functions,Internal Bodies and Staffing"of National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)has been completed successfully.     

National Health and Family Planning Commission will Conduct Tracking Survey on Population Structure of 30,000 Families with Liaoning as the Pilot

While the society is discussing the ＂two-child policy＂ passionately, thegovernment say they are initiating a large number of researches and surveys. Currently, a training workshop on map sampling and tracking survey on Chinese family development is condt, cted in Dalian City. It marks the start of the pilot of a large-scale tracking survey on family development in China.