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Chen, Yen-Fu (2020) Taiwan and the World Health Assembly/World Health Organization : perspectives from health services and research. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 3 (1). pp. 10-27. doi:10.1163/24688800-00301003 ISSN 2468-8800.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00301003
Abstract
Despite being one of Asia’s major economies with a population of over 23 million, Taiwan has been mostly excluded from the World Health Assembly/World Health Organization (wha/who) since 1972, due to China’s objection. While this has not stopped Taiwan from developing a comprehensive healthcare system and being an active member of international health community, the lack of membership in the world’s leading health authority undermines global health and presents perverse, and yet often neglected, inequality faced by Taiwanese people. This article aims to provide contextual information concerning the impacts of Taiwan’s exclusion from wha/who by: (1) enumerating health-related areas where Taiwan has rich knowledge and experiences that would have been cascaded much more widely and efficiently to those in need around the world had it been allowed to participate; and (2) highlighting difficulties faced by Taiwanese people and potential threats to international health arising from the exclusion.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Taiwan -- Health aspects, World Health Organisation -- Taiwan, World Health Assembly -- Taiwan, Medical care -- Taiwan, World health -- Taiwan | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Taiwan Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
ISSN: | 2468-8800 | ||||||
Official Date: | 3 February 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 3 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 10-27 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/24688800-00301003 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 May 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 February 2021 |
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