Background
China has experienced rapid economic growth and development performances for the last 3 decades; however, its size, currently 1.3 billion people, and the effects of environment, living behaviour, and an aging population are putting a great strain on China’s health care system. Therefore, the Chinese government has launched major reforms for their health care system that will address critical problems, including across-the-board expansion of health services for people in both urban and rural areas by 2020.
Purpose
Over the past few years, the eHealth Strategy Office has been working closely with China’s different health care partners to collaborate in policy engagement, eHealth education, clinical research, training, and institutional partnerships.
These joint efforts have the potential to result in improvements to China’s health care services and education, and may help position China as a world leader in health care services that can help guide other countries with similar challenges.
The eHealth Strategy Office looks forward to contributing our academic experiences and technical resources, together with our international network of partners, to offer assistance to China during this important initiative for health system reform.
Objectives
The objectives of our China collaborations include:
- Enhancing Canada-China stakeholder relationships in health care by building institutional linkages.
- Forming enduring international healthcare information exchange platforms to bring key stakeholders and experts together
- To provide training and educational programs for family physicians, public health management, hospital management and health informatics and eHealth.
- Building international capacity for academic research and public health education.
- To achieve equity in health access, service and education in rural China, using eHealth technology.
- Strengthening and supporting the efforts of China’s rural health system reform.
- Working collaboratively to build scalable and sustainable health care services and education that support both urban and rural areas.
Through collaboration with China, we hope that we can not only provide support to our Chinese population in BC and Canada, but also that we can share our skills to acheive mutual benefits through international cooperation.
Recent Posts
Past China collaborations activities
In order to foster academic and clinical research cooperation between The University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, The WHO Collaboration Centre of Public Health Education, Shanghai, PRC, and The Eastern China Healthy Brain Research Institute, Shanghai, PRC, the three institutions have Signed the memorandum of understanding based upon principles of mutual equality and reciprocity […] Read More >
Faculty of Medicine four senior members visited China in April, 2011
From April 18-28, 2011, Dr.Kendall Ho accompanied Dr. Gavin Stuart (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine), Mark Vernon (Chief Operating Officer), Dr. Martin Dawes (Head, Department of Family Practice), visited universities in China for promoting more effective cooperation and exchanges in practice training, research collaboration, hospital management, nursing education, eHealth and short-term exchanges students etc, universities including: Peking University […] Read More >
Global Health Summit Series: China-Canada Health Academic Forum
On June 6th 2011, the eHealth Strategy Office hosted the inaugural event of it's Global Health Summit Series. Held at UBC Health Care Diamond Centrer, a delegation of 17 guests from China consisting of senior hospital executives, administrators and provincial government officials, attended an Health Academic Forum focused on hospital management issues, hospital infection control and eHealth. Read More >