Health Policy Challenges

Aims and Plans: The overall aim is to analyze societal adjustment to the health consequences of demographic ageing so as to develop a framework for assessing the effectiveness of different health and long-term care policy models. This entails two major approaches of which one is assessing how changes in policies, social institutions, and culture articulate and shape the balance of responsibility between families, individuals and the state; and the other is developing criteria for policy evaluation within a purpose-built comparative framework taking dynamic demographic context into account.

Rationale: The guiding assumption for this proposal is that the feasibility and effectiveness of policy in any given country must be assessed on the basis of an analysis of context, specifically: the interaction between demographic trends, formal policy, institutional change, and cultural values. Perceptions of problems and their urgency, policy responses, and policy implementation will differ because of these contextual factors, and policy effectiveness must be judged in terms of a framework that takes these into account.
 
IARU Partners Involved

• Australian National University
• National University of Singapore
• Peking University
• University of Copenhagen
• University of Oxford