{"id":3504,"date":"2012-04-19T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:19:03","slug":"april-2012-hk-ailing-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/april-2012-hk-ailing-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2012 &#8211; Hong Kong&#8217;s Ailing Health System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has one of the better public health systems in the world but the system is groaning under the challenge of an aging population, spiralling costs and rising expectations.<\/p>\n<p>In this issue of Periscope we look at some of the problems facing the public health system:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=3189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As many elderly people rely on the out-patient services of public hospitals, the government has introduced a voucher scheme encourage them to use private services instead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=3214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hospital Authority has turned to overseas-qualified doctors to make up the shortfall of physicians in public hospitals but the move has drawn the ire of local doctors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=3223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nurses are leaving the \u00a0public sector and even the profession \u00a0in droves. What can be done to stem the exodus?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has one of the better public health systems in the world but the system is groaning under the challenge of an aging population, spiralling costs and rising expectations. In this issue of Periscope we look at some of the problems facing the public health system: As many elderly people rely on the out-patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,1987,7,1],"tags":[60,40],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2012","category-issue-124","category-periscope","category-uncategorized","tag-health","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21434,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/21434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}