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| Project No. | HWG 01 2019A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Title | APEC Conference on Urbanization, Population Aging and Technology Innovation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Status | Project in Implementation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fund Account | APEC Support Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sub-fund | ASF: Innovative Development, Economic Reform and Growth (IERG) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Year | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Session | Session 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APEC Funding | 85,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Co-funding Amount | 70,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Project Value | 155,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sponsoring Forum | Health Working Group (HWG) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Topics | Health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Committee | SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Proposing Economy(ies) | Chinese Taipei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Co-Sponsoring Economies | Russia;Singapore;Thailand;United States;Viet Nam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expected Start Date | 01/11/2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expected Completion Date | 31/12/2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Proponent Name 1 | Wang Ying-Wei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Job Title 1 | Director-General | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organization 1 | Health Promotion Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal Address 1 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telephone 1 | (886-2) 25220540 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fax 1 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Email 1 | chliu@hpa.gov.tw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Proponent Name 2 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Job Title 2 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organization 2 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal Address 2 | Not Applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Declaration | Wang Ying-Wei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Summary | Rapid urbanization and an aging population are two inexorable and intersecting demographic trends in Asia-Pacific region as a result of challenges for public health and socioeconomic development. 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas. This proportion is growing, especially in the Asia. Also, the total number of people over 60 is set to double by 2050, rising from 1 billion to 2 billion, with 80% living in low- and middle-income economies. The economies need to create age-friendly and sustainable urban environments, where people from every background live and work together in harmony and safety. In response to the trend of the ageing population, age-friendly cities have been promoted since 2010, and have been implemented across all 22 counties and cities in Chinese Taipei since 2013. In the meanwhile, active ageing programs, including the execution of smart healthy weight and nutrition management model and integrated care for chronic disease policies with technology innovation. Furthermore, to motivate every part of society toward sustainability, we also launched a green hospital movement, beginning in 2010 where hospitals were called upon to pledge to reduce their carbon foot print well into the year 2020. This proposed project aims to organize a conference in 2020 in Taipei and will include the following activities: (1) Interactive sessions to exchange on healthy cities, age-friendly cities, integrated care for chronic disease policies with technology innovation in the ageing population, and sustainable environment; (2) Site visit to smart cities, hospitals and communities where age-friendly and environment-friendly designs are adopted. |
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| Relevance | Relevance – Benefits to region: Rapid urbanization and an aging population are two inexorable and intersecting demographic trends in Asia-Pacific region as a result of challenges for public health and socioeconomic development. 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas in 2018. This proportion is growing, especially in the Asia. Also, the total number of people over 60 is set to double by 2050, rising from 1 billion to 2 billion, with 80% living in low- and middle income economies. The increasingly urbanized world and over-development of cities have led to over-crowding, decreased quality of life and increased pollution and health problems. Not to mention that aging is characterized by complex health states. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise at a time in which many economies’ populations are growing older. The growing burden of urbanization and an aging population extends far beyond one economy. APEC member economies need to create age-friendly and sustainable urban environments, where people from every background live and work together in harmony and safety. This is also an opportunity for fostering new technologies and other innovations, as well as economic development. Chinese Taipei has initiated healthy cities since 2002. We have worked to establish healthy public policies to make sure cities and community residents actively participate in health promotion work and live in safe communities. In response to the rising trend of the ageing population, age-friendly cities have been promoted since 2010, and have been implemented across all 22 counties and cities in Chinese Taipei since 2013. With respect to being age-friendly, from 2017, with healthy cities as the base, age-friendly communities and the Dementia-friendly Communities (DFCs) and Caring Communities Plan were promoted. To integrate community resources, we have also established community health delivery model, which connects Acute Care Elderly (ACE) of medical institution and community resources to build process, so as to achieve the goal of frailty prevention and reduction in elderly. In addition, innovative technology has been progressly applied in urbanization, population and aging issues, which can be exemplified by healthy weight and nutrition management model.[1] Furthermore, to motivate every part of society toward sustainability, Chinese Taipei echoes planetary health and strengthened environmental health literacy that facilitates community awareness of environmental health issues. A green hospital movement was also launched since 2010 where hospitals were called upon to pledge to reduce their carbon foot prints well into the year 2020. The proposed project will organize a conference not only for developing the capacities among APEC economies through transferring knowledge, but also for discussing strategic actions on creating age-friendly and sustainable urban environments with innovative technology. Relevance – Eligibility and Fund Priorities: This project is in line with the eligibility criteria of IERG Sub-Fund: Implementing the “Healthy Asia-Pacific 2020” initiative. Two main key areas of the Healthy Asia-Pacific 2020 initiative are continuing to advance unfinished health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in a manner that complements activities of the post-2015 development agenda, and strengthening the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including mental illnesses, disabilities, violence and injuries. This includes adopting a holistic and multi-sectoral approach that achieve people’s health and wellbeing. This project can facilitate collaboration of APEC health sectors, technology sectors, health economises and other international organizations to promote sustainable and green healthcare environment, establish integrated NCDs management for the elderly, and contribute to the improvement of health throughout the whole society. Relevance – Capacity Building: Many economies in the Asia-Pacific region are facing rising trends in the prevalence of chronic diseases and associated healthcare costs in ageing societies. Technology innovation is considered a golden opportunity to support and empower an ageing population to lead fulfilling and healthy lives. Since each economy might respond differently to the actual challenges with various approaches towards potential solutions, we expect this project to facilitate all APEC economies to identify the major challenge and constrains in their economies and strengthen exchanges and cooperation to explore diversified paths to support people to stay active and productive as they age among the Asia-Pacific region. This project fit capacity building goals: to attain sustainable growth and equitable development in the Asia-Pacific region and to improve the economic and social well-being of the people, through developing technology innovation to ensure that the society can offer healthcare services at a quantity and quality that mirrors the expectations of the Asia-Pacific population. In order to improve health and social well-being, the project aims to establish an international communication channel to achieve the aforementioned long-term goals. Throughout the project, we will conduct ongoing consultation with HWG members and target APEC members’ needs to design agenda and related information of the conference. Additionally, we will provide APEC economies with the essential components and key strategies to produce better health outcomes. It is anticipated that a consensus on cooperation for innovation in comprehensive care with all APEC member economies could be reached. Furthermore, dissemination of acquired skills and long-term cooperation relationship among APEC member economies may be established to create age-friendly and sustainable urban environments together in the APEC region. [1] From 2017 to 2020, HPA has initiated Smart Healthy City project, using smart health promotion model which was developed by domestic information and communication technology, and building smart healthy weight management model to execute in the communities and workplaces. By smart service model, we hope to increase the ratio of people’s healthy body weight, and decrease the medical expenses of overweight, obesity and related non communicable diseases. |
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| Objectives | The participants, mainly experts and officials from the targeted field, are encouraged to contribute and share experiences and innovative strategies for long term management of demographic shift, urban development and aging population, in this proposed forum. This forum also would establish a communication channel that facilitates and shares successful experiences in order to foster an effective and long-term cooperation relationship in Asia-Pacific region, and promote health within respective APEC member economies. |
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| Alignment | Alignment - APEC: 1) This project echoes the 2019 APEC theme "Connecting People, Building the Future" and its priority “Sustainable Growth” by cooperating on innovative and sustainable communities, hospitals, cities and environment. Alignment – Forum: The Healthy Asia Pacific 2020 Initiative (HAP2020) has been one of the priorities in APEC, which was endorsed by the Ministers at the 26th Ministerial Meeting in 2014. During the Meeting, they recognized that the prospect of shared prosperity of APEC member economies will depend on innovative development, economic reform, growth in the region, and inclusive support is seen as essential to maintaining growth while also providing a solid foundation for economic growth and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups. The aim of the initiative is to promote people’s health and well-being through their whole life-course, by means of whole-of-government, whole-of-society and whole-of-region approach to promote health security, growth and development of the Asia-Pacific region. This project directly supports HAP2020 key focus area to “strengthening the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including injuries” and “strengthening health systems to support universal health coverage” by creating age-friendly and sustainable urban environments with innovative technology, including a holistic and multi-sectoral approach that provides comprehensive health management, and develops new automation-enhanced tech that has transformed home care, community care, and hospital care for the elderly. In addition, this project meets HAP2020 priorities: (1) Universal Health Coverage and (2) Non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in the aging population. |
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| TILF/ASF Justification | Not Applicable. |
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| Beneficiaries and Outputs | Outputs: This project will be carried out in the form of an international conference exploring better strategies for healthy cities, age-friendly cities, integrated care for chronic disease policies with technology innovation in the ageing population, and sustainable environment in the APEC region. It would consist of a 1.5-day conference and 0.5-day site visit, which will be held in Chinese Taipei in 2020. 1) Conference: The conference theme is “Urbanization, Population Aging and Technology Innovation”,and has three discussion topics: 1.Global Views and trends on Urbanization, Population Aging and Health; 2.Innovative strategies for demographic shift, urban development and aging population; 3.Experience sharing and case reports among APEC members and APEC with Partners. Our potential agenda include Ethics and moral issue, Governance, Inter-Agency collaboration issues, Innovative application, Stakeholders and ICT and other innovations. PO will pick three priority issues after further discussion. Experts who are responsible for age-friendly and sustainable urban environments from the private and the public sectors in APEC economies and non-APEC stakeholders will be invited as a moderator or a speaker to share latest programs in age-friendly and sustainable urban environments using innovative technology designs. Participants from APEC member economies will be invited to provide brief information on their own healthy ageing, environment and technology innovation research, plans and strategies before the conference in poster presentation format. We will conduct the conference evaluation by a questionnaire survey to assess participants and experts’ satisfaction comments and suggestions. 2) Manual: The conference manual that includes updated information on innovative technology utilization strategies and application of comprehensive care for elderly, the successful experiences shared by economies and brief introduction of the moderators or speakers, will be prepared in advance and distributed to the participants during the conference. 3) Exhibition Booths: We will invite public sectors and private sectors to set up exhibition booths, and to provide every participant interactive exercises in comprehensive care and build relationships between Experts and related stakeholders through face-to-face meeting. 4) Site Visit: To help member economies better understand how to apply technology innovation to improve qualities of age-friendly and environment-friendly care, the project consists of a 0.5-day site visit which will verify the accuracy of our presentation in the conference. 5) Project Report: We will finalize a final report which will not be published by APEC. The report will follow by the APEC rule and be well structured, such as cover page, introduction, table of contents, topic-based summaries of presentations, content of the manual, the results of the surveys, conclusions , key findings and recommendations. The final report will be no more than 10 pages. Outcomes: Most governments across the region are underprepared for the burden of the rapidly aging population on economic and health systems, and this presents an opportunity for healthcare providers to use Technology Innovation, including APPs, AI, and IOT etc. By proceeding through this project, we anticipate the outcomes as follows: 1) Raises the participants’ awareness and enhances their capacity to fight against the burden of ageing: The project not only raises the participants’ awareness on the importance and urgency of ageing threat to public health and social-economic development during the conference, but also enhances the participants’ capacity to fight against the burden of ageing when they returned to their home economies, through broader digital health and revising practices, policies or regulations based on local context in the near future. We will conduct an ex-ante survey via questionnaire, and compare the results with those of the ex-post, to accurately measure level of knowledge gained.. The participants were encouraged to make optimal use of the conference materials. It facilitated participants in further applications of the knowledge and information acquired during the conference. After this conference, we expect to help the participants identify the major challenge and constrains in their economies, enhance their capacity of digital health and care, and modify their ageing care programs to meet the global trend. 2) Establish a communication channel in Asia-Pacific region: An expert network and a social media platform on healthy ageing and digital health will be provided during the conference to enable participants to consult and exchange information with other experts, even after they have returned to their economies. We connected the Asia-Pacific participants and provide access to healthy ageing strategies through not only the government officials, but also academics, so that the network can be sustainably maintained. Moreover, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) of Chinese Taipei is a member of Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH), which is a regional academic consortium, comprising many of the largest and most influential schools of Public Health in the Asia-Pacific region. Ultimately, we wish to achieve a long-lasting cooperation relationship among APEC economies to promote preventative approaches to healthy ageing, using digital services to transform care. Beneficiaries: The targeted beneficiaries of this project are stakeholders directly or indirectly involved in the area of urbanization, population aging and technology innovation, exemplified by policy makers, officials, institutions, health care workers, etc. We also welcome, researchers/scholars/analysts, epidemiologists, and other health professionals from APEC economies. Other relevant partners such as relevant international organization (i.e. WHO), private sectors, academia, NGOs, are also welcome to participate and contribute. During the conference, digital care programs and strategies, speeches and posters will be shared and discussed. We expect that through the sharing of professional information and practical experience, participants can understand effective strategic actions that APEC member economies have taken, learn from other economies’ experience to improve their capacity implementing action plans and adopt the best practices to develop age-friendly and environment-friendly environment via technology innovation in their economies. Furthermore, they are encouraged to utilize the knowledge and information they have gained during the conference to influence decision makers or other health care workers in their respective economies. We hope this methodology can be applied via a hub and spoke model to augment the benefits of this proposal beyond the participants. This project will provide the basis of future actions taken by public health authorities and healthcare professionals in the APEC economies. This will benefit all people by health information sharing to improve care coordination and safety, and lead to better health outcomes. |
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| Dissemination | The manual (listed as one of the outputs) will be disseminated to participants and made available for access by the general public via the conference website. To ensure a productive conference, the presentation slides and relevant materials will be collected ahead of the conference and distributed to the participants on site. Documents and materials in the conference, such as conference agenda, a contact information booklet (only disseminating when consent are given by participants in advance), feedback evaluation and other materials will be prepared in either hard or soft copies, and about 100 copies will be released. We will encourage all participants to actively participate in events of the conference actively. Before the conference, when they register for the conference, participants will be asked to provide brief information to showcase their experience of age-friendly and environment-friendly designs sharing, plans and strategies. Project report will also be uploaded to the APEC website as well as the website of Health Promotion Administration for general public to access. In addition, a QR code will be developed and included in the conference manual. All information can be accessed online through scanning the QR code linking to the website of Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Chinese Taipei. Free online information will be available for public health workers and health care professionals to obtain even if they are not able to attend the conference. |
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| Gender | All genders are encouraged to attend this conference with anticipation of fair representation with respective gender. Project organizers would try to involve at least 25 percent of female speakers, and it is expected that approximately 50% of conference participants will be women. We encourage participants to contribute their issues with Gender friendly considerations such as related regulation and policy, design and innovation. Women’s contribution toward aging population as primary care takers is hereby dully noted. Gender friendly issues can be discussed as a specific session if adequate interest has been generated from member economies. This project promotes “skills, capacity building, and health” and “innovation and technology” by strengthening women’s knowledges, skills and capacity of technology innovation utilization in healthy aging during the conference. In compliance to the statement of “Healthy Women, Healthy Economies” declared by APEC, we will also encourage invited speakers to emphasize the linkage between women’s health and age-friendly and sustainable urban environments, to raise the importance of women’s health of all participants, and eventually include the five pillars of the Gender Criteria (Access to Capital/Assets; Access to Markets; Skills, Capacity Building, Health; Leadership, Agency, Voice; Innovation and Technology). After the conference, all participants will bring back the knowledge they received to their home economy, and assist the women population in their economies to learn new care skills, innovation technology. To provide women with more opportunities, we will consult related experts and invite as many women as possible to attend the conference as either speakers or delegates. PO is committed to collect sex disaggregated data for all speakers and participants (not only the APEC funded) at the project event, which will be included within Completion Report to the Secretariat at the completion of the project as well as giving future POs guidance on their own gender parity targets. |
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| Work Plan | The project consists of a 1.5 day conference and a half-day site visit that include three stages:
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| Risks | Risk 1: Unexpected disaster happens before or during the conference period. Solution: If an unexpected disaster, such as a typhoon, an earthquake and a disease outbreak, happens before the conference, we will confer with the APEC Secretariat and all APEC economies to decide whether or not the conference should proceed. After considering the risk of the disaster and opinions, the decision on whether the conference should be postponed or held on time will be made. In addition, if most invited moderators, speakers and participants express their concerns for not being able to attend the conference due to an outbreak or a natural disaster, we will also defer the conference until further notice. Moreover, a preparedness plan will be formulated during the planning stage of the conference. Local emergency and police departments will be consulted to ensure a safe environment for all participants. Risk 2: Selected topics might not meet the needs of all HWG members. Solution: We will confer with HWG members during the preparation stage; in addition, we will provide the latest agenda and related information of the conference to HWG members frequently and anticipate to get feedback from them. Besides, we will work closely with potential speakers to ensure their presentations meet the needs of all HWG members. Risk 3：If some speaker can’t attend the conference unexpectedly. Solution: During the planning stage of the conference, we will prepare a backup speaker list to cope with this kind of situation. If there is a cancellation of a speaker, we will contact the backup speaker, and send out the invitation promptly. Risk 4：Delayed submission of conference materials Solution: As mentioned in the Section of Dissemination, in addition to preparing 100 copies of conference manuals, we will also disseminate a QR code that links to the electronic copy of the conference manual to each participant. Therefore, if the production of the conference manual is delayed, the electronic copy can be readily downloaded on the website through scanning the QR code, and participants can use their mobile device to read the manual before the hard copy is ready. Risk 5：Lower travel eligible participation Solution: Invitation will be circulated to all APEC member economies emphasizing APEC funding available for up to two participants from each APEC travel-eligible economies as well as domestic related organizations, and we will request early confirmation. Therefore, the percentage of participation can be continuously followed up and a backup participant list will be developed. If the percentage of travel-eligible participation is too low, we will invite travel-eligible members on the backup list to participate in the conference in a timely manner. We’ll prepare a suggestion list of participants from the different economies taking into consideration the detailed criteria for the primary target participants. This should be a back up list to suggest to economies once the first nomination process fails to attract a sufficient number. |
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| Monitoring and Evaluation | The projects will be implemented under the umbrella of the APEC. Once the project is approved and the agenda is set, a detailed plan will be generated. We will set a strict timeline of actions for the project, which includes duration, activity, output, deadline, person in charge, etc. Each task will be assigned to a staff, and this person will have to organize and communicate all relevant matters with the team. In addition, PO will organize group meetings every 3~4 weeks to have operators reporting on the progress. Records will be made at each meeting for after-project review. The review meetings can ensure all the substantive and logistic arrangements for the conference are on track. We expect that there will be around 200 participants from 10 APEC member economies to take part in the conference. The conference will involve at least 25 percent of female speakers. At least 50% of the invited participants will be female. Furthermore, we expect more than 70% of the participants will be satisfied with the result of the conference. Before and after the conference, a questionnaire survey will be handed out to the participants to assess their satisfaction, opinions, and capacity in healthy ageing and digital health. The result will be used as indicators to measure this project’s output. The survey indicators include the following: - conference participation rates - government officials participation rates - speakers/moderators/ experts engaged - APEC economies attended - Number of smart cities, hospitals, or communities in site visit - manual distributed - comments on exhibition booths and site visit - survey collected rate - performance assessment of healthy ageing and digital health We will finalize a project report which will not be published by APEC. The report will follow by the APEC rule and be well structured, such as cover page, introduction, table of contents, topic-based summaries of presentations, content of the manual, the results of the surveys, conclusions, key findings and recommendations. The project report will be no more than 10 pages and contain at least 3 recommendations. We will conduct an ex-ante survey via questionnaire, and compare the results with those of the ex-post, to make sure that participants are made aware of the importance and urgency of ageing threat to public health and social-economic development,, and to also enhances the participants’ capacity to fight against the burden of ageing when they returned to their home economies. To measure gender impacts on the project, we will collect sex-disaggregated data in our survey. The feedback and comments from Speakers/ Participants regarding the content of the conference will be collected and analyzed. Furthermore, we expect more than 70% of the participants will be satisfied with the result of the conference, which will be obtained from a questionnaire survey to assess participants’ satisfaction on the topics and speakers, etc. The evaluation result from the questionnaire survey reflecting the lessons learned and experience earned by respective APEC member economies will be formulated, which will help Chinese Taipei design better project contents in the future. |
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| Linkages | We plan to engage all the Ministries/Departments of Health of APEC economies in nominating eligible participants. During the preparation, we will engage the co-sponsoring economies and related agencies. Experts from non-APEC member economies and other international organizations will be invited to participate as either moderators or speakers. In addition, we will also invite the representatives from the Life Sciences Innovation Forum (LSIF) to attend this conference, and experts from APEC, non-APEC member economies, the private sector, academia, NGOs, and other international organizations such as WHO and WPRO will be invited to attend the conference as moderators or speakers. We will remain in close contact with the APEC Secretariat for advice on non-member participation and ensure that the non-member participation guidelines are closely followed. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, a session will be arranged to discuss how cross-sector collaboration can tackle challenges of urbanization and population ageing, and technology innovation experts, as well as healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals, clinics), healthcare professionals (e.g. physician, nurses, dieticians, laboratory technicians, pharmacists) and so on will be invited to participate in the session. Although aging population is the positive result of social progress, economic development, health care improvement, it makes challenges to the growth of economies as the shortage of labor resource, rising health cost, social security, impact on savings and investment, etc. Many interventions on urbanization and population ageing have been already implemented in previous projects by nutrigenomics approach or health technology assessment (HTA). The members of APEC economies have also been facing with the problem of aging population. Hence not only nutrition care but also long-term care for ageing population of APEC economies is required to take into account. We know urbanization and population ageing significantly impacts health and the economy. However, there has been no projects that uses technology innovation intervention strategies such as APP, AI, wearable devices, social media and electronic health records against urbanization and population ageing. |
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| Sustainability | This conference will assist the developing economies to identify major challenges and constrains in their economies and enhance their capacity building to establish a better digital healthcare tactics. Participants can apply the knowledge and information learned from the conference to develop more suitable strategies for their own economies. Hard copies and soft copies of the conference outputs will be disseminated to relevant stakeholders and beneficiaries for future recall and reference. Before the end of the conference, we will develop a contact information booklet containing contact details of the participating experts, including the moderators, speakers and participants who are in charge in age-friendly and environment-friendly in their respective economies. Participants are encouraged to exchange contacts during the conference to keep constant information exchange. We also hope to facilitate further communication among economies after the conference. Besides, final report will be finalized to summarize best practices, key findings and recommendations. The conference will facilitate a better understanding of the smart healthcare situation in the APEC region among the participants through discussing and sharing the latest information on relevant control efforts. In our future work, Chinese Taipei will revise our age-friendly and environment-friendly strategic plan based on the new idea and information gained from the conference. The result of the conference will be presented at HWG. After project completion, we expect participating economies to gain a better insight into new strategies with age-friendly and environment-friendly designs. In the recent years, more new researches and strategies for integrated care for elderly with technology innovation have become available. We expect the participants to do more researches on those new strategies after they return to their home economies. Through the poster presentation during the conference, the consensus on the importance of digital care for elderly in the APEC region can be reached and strengthened. Furthermore, through utilizing the expert network, sustained sharing of expertise to update one another on the latest smart healthcare systems can be achieved. Besides, when any economies encounter obstacle in urbanization and population ageing, we can identify and consult with the expert directly through the network, and we will also invite them to join future relevant conferences or activities we host, and the information provided by the expert will be uploaded to the website of HWG for those who need it. Therefore, through the expert network, participants can keep in touch with one another to strengthen the regional capacity to tackle urbanization and population ageing. It is anticipated that long-term cooperation relationship among APEC member economies can be established to tackle urbanization and population aging together. |
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| Project Overseers | Prof. Ying-Wei Wang is the primary project overseer. Prof. Wang is currently the Director-General of the Health Promotion Administration, which is the authority responsible for health promotion and NCDs prevention and control in Chinese Taipei. Prof. Wang has also been newly elected as the governance board member in the International Health Promoting Hospitals Network in June 2018. In addition, he devotes great effort to the development of hospice and palliative care and served as a council member in the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network. With his extensive experience in the promotion of palliative care, Professor Wang won the first prize in the 2010 international quality of death survey. Professional Career: - Director-General, Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Chinese Taipei - Deputy Director, Department of Medicine, Tzu Chi University - Director, Department of Medical Humanities, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University - Director, Heart Lotus Care Ward, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital - Secretary-general, Chinese Taipei Society of Health Promotion Hospitals - Council member, Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network. In order to ensure the conference proceeds as planned, Ms. Yun-Yao (Lily) Ko and Ms. Ying-Chieh (Anita) Liu are assigned to be the project coordinators to coordinate with the APEC Secretariat, professional event organizer and APEC economies, and to manage and implement this project. Ms. Ko and Ms. Liu’s contact details are as follows: Contact persons: Yun-Yao Ko (Lily) Tel: +886 2 25220534 Ying-Chieh Liu (Anita) |
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| Cost Efficiency | Not Applicable. |
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| Drawdown Timetable | Not Applicable. |
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| Direct Labour | Not Applicable. |
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| Waivers | On the second day of the conference, a site visit to smart cities, hospitals and communities or smart healthcare providers will be arranged for all the foreign participants, including the moderators, speakers and delegates from participating APEC member economies. The visit will provide an overview of practical procedures in digital health with age-friendly and environment-friendly designs. Hospital personnel or health project managers will be onsite to share their experiences on how to implement age-friendly and environment-friendly care via technology innovation. For example, member economies will visit hospitals using technology innovation based smart healthcare such as personal App and understand how telecare team deliver the most appropriate care for each individual patient. |
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