中華民國112年版衛生福利年報 英文版

中華民國112年版衛生福利年報 英文版
Author: 衛生福利部
Publisher: 衛生福利部
Total Pages: 184
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Genre: Health & Fitness
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Preface Organization and Policy –Chapter 1 Organizational Structure –Chapter 2 Expenditure –Chapter 3 Administrative Goals Health and Welfare Indicators –Chapter 1 Population Indicators –Chapter 2 Vital Indicators –Chapter 3 National Health Expenditure –Chapter 4 Social Welfare Indicators –Chapter 5 International Comparisons An Environment Conducive to Health –Chapter 1 Healthy Childbirth and Growth –Chapter 2 Unhealthy Habits –Chapter 3 Active Aging and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases –Chapter 4 Health Communication and Health Surveillance Health Care –Chapter 1 Healthcare Systems –Chapter 2 Mental Health and Psychiatric Care –Chapter 3 Medical and Public Health Manpower –Chapter 4 Health Care Quality –Chapter 5 Health Care in Remote Areas –Chapter 6 Health Care for Specially Targeted Groups Long-Term Care Services –Chapter 1 Long-Term Care Regulations and Systems –Chapter 2 The Long-Term Care Resource Development –Chapter 3 Long-Term Care Human Resources –Chapter 4 Long-Term Care Services Quality Communicable Disease Control –Chapter 1 Communicable Disease Control Regulations and System –Chapter 2 Prevention and Control of Major/Emerging Communicable Diseases –Chapter 3 Communicable Disease Preparedness and Response, and Infection Control –Chapter 4 Immunization Management of Food and Drug –Chapter 1 Management of Food –Chapter 2 Management of Medicinal Products –Chapter 3 Management of Medical Devices and Cosmetics –Chapter 4 National Laboratories and Risk Management –Chapter 5 Food and Drug Information, Communication, and Dissemination National Health Insurance and National Pension –Chapter 1 National Health Insurance –Chapter 2 National Pension System Social Welfare –Chapter 1 Children and Youth Welfare –Chapter 2 Welfare for Women and Family Support –Chapter 3 Welfare for the Elderly –Chapter 4 Welfare for Persons with Disabilities –Chapter 5 Strengthening the Social Safety Net Social Assistance and Social Work –Chapter 1 Social Assistance –Chapter 2 Social Work –Chapter 3 Community and Links to Other Resources Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Protective Services –Chapter 1 Prevention of Gender-Based Violence –Chapter 2 Prevention of Domestic Violence –Chapter 3 Prevention of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment –Chapter 4 Protection of Children, Adolescents, the Elderly, and Individuals with Disabilities Research, Development, and International Cooperation –Chapter 1 Technological Studies on Health and Welfare –Chapter 2 International Cooperation Appendices –Appendix 1 Health and Welfare Indicators –Appendix 2 Notifiable Diseases Statistics –Appendix 3 Technical Term Keys

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine
Author: Jay Kalra
Publisher: AHFE Conference
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2023-12-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1958651923

Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 4-6, December 2023

The United States, China, and Taiwan

The United States, China, and Taiwan
Author: Robert Blackwill
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780876092835

Taiwan "is becoming the most dangerous flash point in the world for a possible war that involves the United States, China, and probably other major powers," warn Robert D. Blackwill, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, and Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia White Burkett Miller professor of history. In a new Council Special Report, The United States, China, and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War, the authors argue that the United States should change and clarify its strategy to prevent war over Taiwan. "The U.S. strategic objective regarding Taiwan should be to preserve its political and economic autonomy, its dynamism as a free society, and U.S.-allied deterrence-without triggering a Chinese attack on Taiwan." "We do not think it is politically or militarily realistic to count on a U.S. military defeat of various kinds of Chinese assaults on Taiwan, uncoordinated with allies. Nor is it realistic to presume that, after such a frustrating clash, the United States would or should simply escalate to some sort of wide-scale war against China with comprehensive blockades or strikes against targets on the Chinese mainland." "If U.S. campaign plans postulate such unrealistic scenarios," the authors add, "they will likely be rejected by an American president and by the U.S. Congress." But, they observe, "the resulting U.S. paralysis would not be the result of presidential weakness or timidity. It might arise because the most powerful country in the world did not have credible options prepared for the most dangerous military crisis looming in front of it." Proposing "a realistic strategic objective for Taiwan, and the associated policy prescriptions, to sustain the political balance that has kept the peace for the last fifty years," the authors urge the Joe Biden administration to affirm that it is not trying to change Taiwan's status; work with its allies, especially Japan, to prepare new plans that could challenge Chinese military moves against Taiwan and help Taiwan defend itself, yet put the burden of widening a war on China; and visibly plan, beforehand, for the disruption and mobilization that could follow a wider war, but without assuming that such a war would or should escalate to the Chinese, Japanese, or American homelands. "The horrendous global consequences of a war between the United States and China, most likely over Taiwan, should preoccupy the Biden team, beginning with the president," the authors conclude.

Human Factors in Accessibility and Assistive Technology

Human Factors in Accessibility and Assistive Technology
Author: Matteo Zallio
Publisher: AHFE International
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2023-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 195865163X

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023), July 20–24, 2023, San Francisco, USA

Democracy, State Capacity and the Governance of COVID-19 in Asia-Oceania

Democracy, State Capacity and the Governance of COVID-19 in Asia-Oceania
Author: Aurel Croissant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-04-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000867323

This book examines the public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asia-Oceania region and their implications for democratic backsliding in the period January 2020 to mid-2021. The contributions discuss three key questions: How did political institutions in Asia-Oceania create incentives for effective public health responses to the COVID-19 outbreak? How did state capacities enhance governments’ ability to implement public health responses? How have governance responses affected the democratic quality of political institutions and processes? Together, the analyses reveal the extent to which institutions prompted an effective public health response and highlights that a high-capacity state was not a necessary condition for containing the spread of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic. By combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the volume also shows that the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of democratic institutions has been uneven across Asia-Oceania. Guided by a comprehensive theoretical framework, this will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political science, policy studies, public health and Asian studies.

Dire Strait?

Dire Strait?
Author: David A. Shlapak
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780833028976

Among the hottest flashpoints in the world today, the Taiwan Strait cannot be ignored by U.S. policymakers and diplomats. China regularly rattles its saber to intimidate Taiwan and influence U.S. policy but has thus far stopped short of overt military action. This report analyzes the steps Taiwan should take to bolster the odds in its favor should a conflict with the mainland occur and describes how the United States can most effectively contribute in both peace and crisis. The authors conclude that the United States and Taiwan can take a number of fairly simple and relatively inexpensive measures - including hardening air bases and other facilities and upgrading the air defense command and control system - that would significantly enhance Taiwan's ability to defend itself against a large-scale Chinese attack.

Making Multiple Babies

Making Multiple Babies
Author: Chia-Ling Wu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2023
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1800738528

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1587634333

This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264805907

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

What's In, What's Out

What's In, What's Out
Author: Amanda Glassman
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1944691057

Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities of limited health care budgets face tough decisions like these regularly. And for many individuals, their personal health care choices are equally stark: paying for medical treatment could push them into poverty. Many low- and middle-income countries now aspire to universal health coverage, where governments ensure that all people have access to the quality health services they need without risk of impoverishment. But for universal health coverage to become reality, the health services offered must be consistent with the funds available—and this implies tough everyday choices for policymakers that could be the difference between life and death for those affected by any given condition or disease. The situation is particularly acute in low- and middle income countries where public spending on health is on the rise but still extremely low, and where demand for expanded services is growing rapidly. What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits plan—a defined list of services that are and are not available—is an essential element in creating a sustainable system of universal health coverage. With contributions from leading health economists and policy experts, the book considers the many dimensions of governance, institutions, methods, political economy, and ethics that are needed to decide what’s in and what’s out in a way that is fair, evidence-based, and sustainable over time.