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The Centre – officially opened on 7 July 2008 – results from the integration of four pre-existing 蜂鸟电竞在线入口/Korea Centres, one of which was the Regional Centre on Health and Social Policy (RCHSP), established in 2005.

There are three main areas of work: social protection statistics (jointly with the International Labour Organisation and the Asian Development Bank); health expenditure and financing statistics (jointly with the Asian Pacific National Health account Network and the World Health Organisation) and pension policies (jointly with the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank). In pursuit of this vision, the Centre hosts various kinds of educational programs, international meetings, seminars and workshops in each sector and provides policy forums presented by experts at home and abroad.

EVALUATING QUALITY STRATEGIES IN ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES: SURVEY RESULTS

The results of the survey provide a useful overview of quality strategies and policies, and show increasing commitment to quality of care in the Asia/Pacific region. The outcome of this study confirms the importance of the WHO-蜂鸟电竞在线入口 expert network to facilitate communication/dissemination of evidence on quality improvement programmes and policies among countries. > Download the report   (released August 2015)

Health

The 蜂鸟电竞在线入口/Korea Policy Centre encourages the development of health accounting systems to track health expenditures and financing flows in the Asian/Pacific Region.

LATEST REPORTS

• Pricing long-term care for older persons , WHO Centre for Health Development (‎Kobe, Japan)‎, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Barber, Sarah L, van Gool, Kees, Wise, Sarah. et al., August 2021‎. Access Country case studies and policy briefs, Interviews with authors, and all background material .
• Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2020 - Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage . This latest edition presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries, and a thematic analysis on health inequalities.
• How pharmaceutical systems are organized in Asia and the Pacific , a co-publication between WHO and the 蜂鸟电竞在线入口 which includes 2-page profiles of 14 countries (in WPRO and SEARO) and provides snapshots on how pharmaceutical systems are organised in each country. Released February 2018.
• A Report for the Survey on Measuring Expenditure by Disease in the Asia-Pacific Region , SHA Technical Paper No.20 (August 2016). This is an overview of participating countries’ practices and availability of data on expenditure by disease, age and gender collected by a questionnaire, which is included in the report.
• Nineteen  System of Health Accounts Papers  have been released so far, covering Bangladesh, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong - China, Mongolia, Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia, India, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia and Indonesia, Pakistan, among others.

Since 2005, the Centre has also hosted annual meetings of Health Accounts Experts in the Asian-Pacific Region. These meetings have offered a venue for taking stock of recent developments in health accounts work at the regional and national levels, discuss technical issues and data-collection improvements, and review the quality of health accounting data and practices in the region.

To assist the Member States to improve the efficiency of their medicines and health technology management system, the establishment of the Asia Pacific Network on Access to Medicines under Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was proposed at the first Meeting on Access to Medicines under UHC in the Asia Pacific Region held in 2014. The Network is a joint initiative by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (蜂鸟电竞在线入口) Korea Policy Centre, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems at Seoul National University. The first network meeting was held at the second Meeting on Access to Medicines under Universal Health Coverage in the Asia Pacific Region in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, from 17 to 18 September 2015 (read the meeting report ).

 

Social policy

The 蜂鸟电竞在线入口/Korea Policy Centre organised a 蜂鸟电竞在线入口-Korea Centre/ADB conference on Social Protection Index for Committed Poverty Reduction in December 2007 and a follow-up ADB/ILO/蜂鸟电竞在线入口 Korea Policy Centre meeting of Social Policy Indicators Experts in Asia in November 2008. Society at a Glance - Asia/Pacific Edition (modelled on Society at a Glance - 蜂鸟电竞在线入口 Social Indicators ), published every two years, offers a broad overview of the Asia/Pacific economies using a wide variety of social and economic indicators that help inform policy on a broad range of social issues. The report also demonstrates how social indicators can be used to measure “well-being” in Southeast Asian economies.

The 蜂鸟电竞在线入口/Korea Policy Centre encourages the development of social accounting systems to track social expenditures in the Asian/Pacific Region. Several  Social Expenditure (SOCX) Blue Papers have been released so far, covering Korea and Japan among other countries.

Pensions

Pensions are a major policy issue in Southeast Asian and 蜂鸟电竞在线入口 economies alike. The 蜂鸟电竞在线入口 has developed international standards and statistical data to help monitor the pensions industry, and is currently drawing up guidelines on the security of investments in pension funds. In 2009, the 蜂鸟电竞在线入口/Korea Policy Centre, the 蜂鸟电竞在线入口 and the World Bank first published Pensions at a Glance: Asia/Pacific Edition. This report analysed the retirement income systems of several Southeast Asian economies and provided a reference for pension comparison throughout the region. A fourth edition of the report Pensions at a Glance: Asia/Pacific Edition was launched in 2018.

Contact

For more information, contact luca.lorenzoni@oecd.org .