Download or read book FOOD HEALTH POLICY OF HONG KON written by 駱偉成 and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Food Health Policy of Hong Kong SAR Government" by 駱偉成, Wai-shing, Lok, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3196691 Subjects: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (Food safety system) Food poisoning - Government policy - China - Hong Kong Food industry and trade - Sanitation - Government policy - China - Hong Kong Vegetable trade - Sanitation - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book The Food Health Policy of Hong Kong SAR Government written by Wai-shing Lok and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hong Kong s Health System written by Gabriel M. Leung and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a significant contribution to the discussions about the future of the system.The evidence-driven content draws from the deep expertise and experience of a wide spectrum of contributors, who represent virtually all relevant areas of the health system.

Download or read book Health Food Regulations in Foreign Countries written by Pui-Yu Janice Yip and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Health Food Regulations in Foreign Countries: Implications in Hong Kong" by Pui-yu, Janice, Yip, 葉沛渝, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4517533 Subjects: Food - Law and legislation Food - Law and legislation - China - Hong Kong Natural foods - Law and legislation Natural foods - Law and legislation - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Policy Coordination in Hong Kong with Special Emphasis on Food Safety Monitoring Programmes written by Yuk-Lai Yeung and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Policy Coordination in Hong Kong With Special Emphasis on Food Safety Monitoring Programmes" by Yuk-lai, Yeung, 楊旭麗, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract To study policy coordination by application of Transaction Cost Approach on food safety monitoring programmes. Four types of transaction costs were identified, namely: legislation refinement and private participation cost, commitment cost, agency cost and uncertainty cost. Two food safety monitoring programmes (importation of live freshwater fish and local production of fresh pork) were chosen to outline the difference concerning policy coordination in bureau-bureau linkage and bureau-enterprise relationship. A total of 16 interviews were conducted to obtain the opinions from bureaucrats and enterprise staffs. Monitoring programme on imported live freshwater fish coordinated mainly by network form with mainland and hierarchy approach locally. Coordination problems were characterized by information asymmetry which contributed to high legislation refinement and private participation cost. Scare information amplified the cost for politicians to support food policy and the difficulty to scrutinize government work. Regulatory discretions were entrusted on administrators but formless laws and blame culture within CFS sacrificed implementer's performance incentives so as to secure their tenures and promotion chance, resulting in pro-status-quo, shrinking and negligence. Political environment and vconstituencies' interest appended uncertainty costs and hindered effective policy coordination. Monitoring programme on local fresh pork revealed the contractual connection between government and monopolistic SOE. Government control was performed by means of laws, requirements and conditions whereas contract terms provided compliance and sanction circumstances for the business to consider their trade-offs. Coordination problems are characterized by conflicting objectives from the administration and the enterprise. Heterogeneous interests represented by government and the combination of commercial and noncommercial values for enterprise came up with incoherent grounds for legislative control. Government could hold the regulatory autonomy and decide the time and extent to intervene, lowering the commitment costs. Noncommercial objective of SOE opened the window for politicians to interfere, hence reducing the agency cost but their watchdog ability was hampered by the special privilege enjoyed by the SOE. Recommendations were made on importance of information, power, issue of trust, incentives on policy coordination aspects. Suggestions were also given for area of future research. vi DOI: 10.5353/th_b3870175 Subjects: Food - Safety measures - Government policy - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Health Policy in Asia written by M. Ramesh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book assesses the policy actions of select Asian governments (China, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand) to address critical health system functions from a policy design perspective. The findings show that all governments in the region have made tremendous strides in focussing their attention on the core issues and, especially, the interactions among them. However, there is still insufficient appreciation of the usefulness of public hospitals and their efficient management. Similarly, some governments have not made sufficient efforts to establish an effective regulatory framework which is especially vital in systems with a large share of private providers and payers. A well-run public hospital system and an effective framework for regulating private providers are essential tools to support the governance, financing, and payment reforms underway in the six health systems studied in this book.

Download or read book Food Safety Law in China written by Francis Snyder and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of the making of transnational food safety law in China. Francis Snyder shows how the 2008 melamine infant formula crisis led to China’s first food safety law and new food safety standards, substantial reforms in government policy and closer relations with international organisations. He also identifies current and future challenges and makes recommendations for dealing with them. Chinese food safety law today is influenced strongly by cross-border factors. While transnational regimes help to shape domestic decisions, many institutions deeply embedded in Chinese society have played key roles in this transformation. Francis Snyder emphasises that, in finding its own path toward ensuring food safety, China can both learn from and teach other countries. In May 2017 this title has been awarded a 'Gourmand World Cookbook Award' in Yantai, Shandong Province, China: 'Best in the World' in two categories: 'Best Wine Law Book' and 'Food Safety Institutions'.

Download or read book Review of Food Safety Policy in Hong Kong written by Lau-Kong Yeung and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Review of Food Safety Policy in Hong Kong: Challenges Brought by Ciguatera on the Safe Consumption of Live Reef Fish" by Lau-kong, Yeung, 楊柳江, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4501366 Subjects: Poisonous fishes - Toxicology Food contamination - Government policy - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Health Policy and the Public Interest written by Lok-sang Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest as the welfare of the "representative individual" with no vested interest who imagines himself to have equal chance of being anyone in society, this book explores alternative ways of finance and delivery, the optimal interface between the public healthcare sector and the private healthcare sector, and that between public insurance and private insurance. The book includes a theoretical but non-technical section that distinguishes between the stock of health and functional health, proposes a utility maximizing/behavioural framework to explain behaviour and the role of health policy and investigates the nature of risk and alternative insurance mechanisms. The book illustrates with a number of country studies, covering a large range of healthcare systems from the American and the European systems to various Asian systems as well as those of Australia and New Zealand. The survey of country experiences reinforces the theoretical conclusions about the role of the public healthcare sector and social insurance and that of the private market. The book highlights the importance of and the workability of "pricing right" and "capping right": pricing standard or basic healthcare services at the right price can contain both demand-side and supply-side moral hazard and lead to more efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; capping annual eligible healthcare expenses will provide effective protection against financial risks. The proposal of lifetime healthcare supplement offers greater choice. Private caregivers and insurers supplement the public healthcare system by offering more choices and premium services, as well as additional protection.

Download or read book Explaining Changes in Food Safety Institutions in Hong Kong written by Ping-Yeung Poon and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Explaining Changes in Food Safety Institutions in Hong Kong" by Ping-yeung, Poon, 潘炳揚, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This dissertation examines changes in Hong Kong's food safety institutions using an historical institutional approach. Hong Kong has faced enormous challenges in food safety over the last two decades. The avian flu crisis in 1997 and the malachite green crisis in 2005 were the two most notable examples. Both crises were recipes for institutional change. There was drastic reform in 2000 to form a unified food safety authority, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, to replace the old legacy of municipal councils and municipal service departments. The established municipal councils failed to sustain themselves and the government replaced them with new institutions. Moreover, in 2005, the government proposed a new Food Safety, Inspection and Quarantine Department to overcome failings in food safety. These changes and reforms developed in variance from what could have been expected using theories of punctuated equilibrium and critical juncture (which emphasize exogenous shocks). My investigation suggests that we should not just focus on critical junctures and exogenous shocks but also study the processes and events outside these events. We cannot take it for granted that a significant exogenous shock will automatically result in institutional change without exploring the role they play and the mechanisms involved. Other endogenous processes or gradual changes may disrupt the mechanisms of institutional reproduction. My research also suggests that the form of institutional change cannot be predicted based on critical junctures and exogenous events. Focusing on the features of political context and institutional properties, we can understand how it is possible to switch between different modes to fit the prevailing institutional and political context. Political appointees and senior civil servants, as change agents, need to focus on political barriers in the legislature before any institutional change in government can eventually succeed. Without major change in Hong Kong's political system and landscape, there is less likelihood of introducing controversial policy changes, including institutional change. Change agents are more likely to make use of different modes of institutional change, such as layering and conversion, in order to circumvent political barriers and the stickiness of old institutions. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5312334 Subjects: Food - Safety measures - Government policy - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Regulation of Health Food in Hong Kong written by Jackie Wu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research Anthology on Public Health Services Policies and Education written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health has become an essential area of focus in terms of the way it operates, the services offered, policies, and more. Maintaining an effective public health system and infrastructure, updated and useful policies, and health literacy are primary concerns. A critical analysis of public healthcare policy and services is critical to accommodate the changing health demands of the global population. Through a deeper understanding of the way public health services are offered, a look into policymaking and current policies in healthcare, and the way health literacy and health education are promoted, the current state and future of public health are acknowledged. The Research Anthology on Public Health Services, Policies, and Education presents a view of public health through an analysis of healthcare services and delivery; policies in terms of policymaking, ethics, and governance; as well as the way society is educated on public health affairs. The chapters will cover a wide range of issues such as healthcare policy, health literacy, healthcare reform, accessibility, public welfare, and more. This book is essential for public health officials, government officials, policymakers, teachers, medical professionals, health agencies and organizations, professionals, researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in the current state of public health and the improvement of public health services and policies for the future.

Download or read book The Law and Regulation of Public Health written by Eric C. Ip and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This timely book inquires into the foundational principles of a form of public health law that takes seriously the inherent dignity of the human person. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this illuminating study makes the case that the rule of law, just as much as population health, is an essential determinant of human well-being. Choosing the case of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, where life expectancy is among the highest in the world, yet whose well-established rule of law tradition is oft perceived to be under strain, in describing the central dilemmas of public health law, it makes an original contribution to our knowledge of comparative public health law and public health ethics. Situating Hong Kong’s public health law in the context of global health, The Law and Regulation of Public Health should appeal across the world to students and scholars of public health, medical law, public law, comparative law, and international law. It accessibly explains the law to epidemiologists and public health policymakers, and public health to jurists and legal practitioners. This book lucidly urges professionals of public health and law to reflect on how the myriad legal instruments and legal institutions should best be used to promote and protect public health in ways that are at once ethical and lawful. It is a must read for anyone who is interested in gaining insights into public health law and regulation in this highly internationalised Chinese Special Administrative Region.

Download or read book Safe Food and Public Health written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Hong Kong FEHD site. Provides information on food safety policies, surveillance, and guidelines. Pamphlet Library with scanned images of publications on food-borne disease, consumer concerns food trade, and vector-borne diseases. Pages on special topics such as genetically modified food, food safety plans, and pest control. Video clip of food surveillance.

Download or read book Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post Colonial Hong Kong 1841 2003 written by Ka-che Yip and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of negotiations between these different groups. By considering developments over a long historical period, the book contrasts the different approaches in the periods of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, post-war reconstruction, transition to decolonization, and Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region within the People’s Republic of China.

Download or read book PRIVATIZATION OF FOOD ENVIRO written by Wing-Ho Joseph Siu and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Privatization of Food and Environmental Hygiene Services in Hong Kong: an Evaluation and Future Prospects" by Wing-ho, Joseph, Siu, 蕭永豪, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3196664 Subjects: Food adulteration and inspection - Government policy - Evaluation - China - Hong Kong Sanitation - Government policy - Evaluation - China - Hong Kong Environmental health - Government policy - Evaluation - China - Hong Kong Privatization - China - Hong Kong - Evaluation

Download or read book Health Insurance Reforms in Asia written by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three places over the past three decades. It also examines forces that propel institutional change. The book provides three detailed case studies on the development of health care financing reforms and the politics of implementing them. It shows that health care systems in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong were the products of Western presence in the nineteenth century. It illustrates how greater attention is paid to the roles played by ideas, actors, and environmental triggers without abandoning the core assumptions that political institutions and policy feedback remain central to impact health care financing reforms. It shows that health care financing reform is shaped by a complex interplay of forces over time. It also provides the most updated material about health care financing reforms in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The central argument of this book is that health care financing reform is both an evolving process responding to changing circumstances and a political process revealing an intricate interplay of power relationships and diverse interests. It shows that institutional changes in health care financing system can be incremental but transformative in nature. It argues that social policies will continue to develop and welfare states will continue to adapt and evolve in order to cope with new risks and needs. This book sheds new lights on understanding the politics of health care financing reform and sources and modes of institutional change.