The Global Healthcare Productivity GHP Project and the ChinaUS Health and Aging Research Program

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The Global Healthcare Productivity (GHP) Project
and the China-US Health and Aging Research Program

• Alan M. Garber, Stanford University
• International Health and Aging Research
  Conference
• Beijing, China
• October 17, 2002

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Global Healthcare Productivity

• Collaboration of 20 developed countries
• Europe Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,Norway,
  UK
• Asia China (Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai),
  Israel, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
• Oceania Australia and New Zealand
• The Americas Argentina, Canada, and the US
• Aims to assess the impact of health care
  regulation, financing, and organization on health
  care delivery and health system performance
• Began in 1999 with funds from the Bechtel
  Initiative on Global Growth Change

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GHP USA Team

• Principal Investigator Alan Garber
• Project Director Sara Singer
• Faculty and Affiliates Kate Bundorf, Jay
  Bhattacharya, Alain Enthoven, Mary Goldstein, Wei
  Yu
• Research Staff Jennie Bowen, Kavita Choudhry,
  Jamie Hwang, Sara Laufer, Mimi Nishimura, Bobby
  Osterhoff, and Byung Kwang Yoo

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Current Research Projects

• Long Term Care
• International comparison of care for AD and the
  elderly
• Organization of long term care in Asian countries
• Comparison of changes in disease and disability
  trends
• Household Expenditures
• Equality in out-of-pocket expenditures
• Effects of policy change on public and private
  spending
• Effects of policy change on pharmaceutical
  spending
• Effect of employment on insurance and OOP costs
• Spending on supplemental health insurance
• Impact of quality improvement initiatives
• AMI mortality rates
• Diabetes long-and short-term complications
  admissions
• Asthma admissions

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Project Accomplishments

• Created research infrastructure
• Formed research network
• Established common research priorities
• Built communications and data collection
  capability
• Host annual meetings
• Stanford, Hong Kong, Bellagio, Beijing
• Sponsoring organized session at 2003 IHEA 4th
  World Congress in San Francisco
• Assessing and Addressing the Needs of Aging
  Populations International Studies of Long Term
  Care and Disabilities

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China-US Health and Aging Research Program

• NIH training award for health services research
  fellows from China, launched 2002
• China Health Economics Institute as major foreign
  collaborator (MFC)
• Stanford Center for Demography and Economics of
  Health and Aging (CDEHA) as parent grant
• Existing Stanford training programs provide
  colleagues for fellows
• GHP projects and network provide collaborative
  opportunities
• Ming Wu, M.D., Ph.D. (2002 fellow)