Harvard China Health Partnership
The Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP) is a university-wide initiative dedicated to advancing scholarship on China’s health system, evaluating and designing health policy interventions, and improving health care in China.
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Research
Building on our long and successful track record of collaboration with Chinese peer institutions to advance research, the Harvard China Health Partnership paves the way to evidence-based policy solutions that affect the lives of millions of Chinese citizens. Our project sites are featured in Chinese media as reform examples.
Affordability and accessibility of health care services have been key social challenges in China. Since the beginning of 2009, the Chinese government began to implement an ambitious reform agenda that aimed to radically improve its health care system. Although much progress has been made in the past years, China’s health care system still faces a number of deeply rooted problems. The Harvard China Health Partnership aims to assess and improve this problem as China’s health care reform evolves.
Current Research Projects
Meaningful Ageing
How can China ensure its rapidly ageing population not only has access to the kind of health care it needs but is also empowered to pursue meaningful lives?
Primary Health Care and Medical Impoverishment in Rural China
Can improving chronic disease management at the primary care level reduce medical impoverishment in rural China?
Integrated Care Pilot in Ningxia
Can a combination of provider payment, organization change, management and digital technology improve the implementation of integrated primary care in rural China?
Bureaucracy and Health Policymaking
How does bureaucratic behavior influence health policymaking and implementation in China?
Twenty-First Century Barefoot Doctor (21BFD)
How can over 500 million people in rural China receive good quality primary health care?
Past Research Projects
China and COVID-19
Our “Global Experience with COVID-19” series examined the impact of COVID-19 on public health in China and beyond. Our scholars’ expertise was sought by organizations around the world.
10 years of health-care reform in China: progress and gaps in Universal Health Coverage
In the past 10 years, China has made substantial progress in improving equal access to care and enhancing financial protection. However, gaps remain in several aspects.
Analysis of Provider Payment Reform on Advancing China’s Health (APPROACH)
In collaboration with Guizhou government, we launched a social experiment in 28 counties from 2016 to 2018, with 28 controls.
Re-aligning Incentives for Affordable and Effective Healthcare in Ningxia
Between 2009 and 2012, government spending on health care doubled and has since continued to increase. How to transform financial resources into effective health care?
Medical Professionalism
The project aimed to provide guidance for physicians in China on professionalism and ethics considerations in their daily practice.
Respiratory Disease in Chinese Textile Workers
The Shanghai Textile Workers Study was started in the early 1980s and has resulted in improved working conditions for millions of workers in China.