Consultation Papers
Improving Hong Kong's
Health Care System :
Why and For Whom?
By The Harvard Team
The Harvard Team was led by Professors William Hsiao and Winnie Yip. The team comprised Dr. Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Amy Kwok, Anupa Bir, Zhun Cao, Karen Eggleston, Karen Fitzner, Melitta Jakab, Chi-Chi Liao, Karen Neoh, Yu-chu Shen, Aparnaa Somanathan, Demitris Vryonides, and Dr. Peter Yaracaris.
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
with Appendix C
Provisional Functional Classification System for Domestic Health Accounts
MAIN REPORT
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PREFACE
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Introduction
1.2 An Evidenced-Based, Consultative Approach
1.3 Outputs
1.4 Assessment of Hong Kong's Health Care System
1.5 Developing Options
1.6 Recommendations
1.7 Steps Forward
1.8 Institutional Requirements
2. BACKGROUND: HONG KONG AND ITS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
2.1 Population
2.2 Health Indicators
2.3 Political and Economic Systems and Development
2.4 Historical Development of the Health Care System
2.5 Current Structure of Health Administration
2.6 Health Care Financing
2.7 Provision of Health Services
3. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS OF THE STUDY
3.1 Objectives
3.2 An Evidence-Based, Widely Consultative Approach
4. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF HONG KONG'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: ACHIEVEMENTS AND WEAKNESSES
4.3 Plausible Explanations for the Strengths and Weaknesses Of the Hong Kong Health Care System
5. DEVELOPING OPTIONS: IN SEARCH OF A PARADIGM CHANGE
5.1 Guiding Principles
5.2 Methods: An Evidence-Based Consultative Approach
5.3 Objectives
5.4 Options: Description and Implications
6. RECOMMENDATIONS AND STEPS FORWARD
6.1 Recommendations
6.2 Steps Forward
6.3 Institutional Requirements
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Framework For Assessment Of Health Care System Performance
Appendix B: List of People Consulted
Please send your comments on this Consultation Document before 15 March 2001 to:-
| (a) | by mail to Health Care Review Task Force Health and Welfare Bureau Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region People's Republic of China 19-20 Floors Murray Building Garden Road, Central Hong Kong; |
| (b) | by fax to (852) 2840 0467 |