Posts Tagged ‘China’
According to the Global Mobility Study 2012, expat assignment destinations vary depending on where the company is based. The study, commissioned by the Santa Fe Group, is made up of responses from 1,119 companies across the globe and in all industry sectors. For a company based in the Americas employees were commonly sent to China, [...]
It is vital to get health insurance when you are healthy. If you are unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with a serious medical condition it is unlikely any company will insure you. The health insurance market can be a jungle with many traps and dangers in the form of small print and exclusion clauses. Finding [...]
An outbreak of hepatitis C in two Chinese towns may have been caused by a medical clinic re-using dirty needles. According to a report on ChinaDaily.com, there have been 86 confirmed cases so far–but the total could be much higher. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver. It can cause scarring and cirrhosis, which may [...]
Grocery shopping abroad can be exciting. This is especially true for expats living in countries where open-air markets are common. But while heaps of fresh food may be a welcome change from the supermarket, they can also carry health risks–particularly if they have feathers. A new study has definitively linked live poultry markets in China [...]
When China announced its new social insurance tax on expatriates (requiring them to pay into the Chinese health system), one of the most common complaints was that expats don’t use public hospitals. Access to China’s public health system was therefore something of a booby prize. However, there may yet be hope for removing the odious [...]
It may sound like something out of a cartoon, but rest assured it’s true: two Indian researchers have been awarded a USD 950,000 grant to develop an “electronic nose” capable of detecting tuberculosis in a patient’s breath. Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Professor Virandar Chauhan and Doctor Ranjan Nanda [...]
In July it was announced that China would be levying a new tax on expats and their employers. At the time the details were frustratingly murky. Now they are out and the clarity is unlikely to make either expats or their employers happy. China’s new expat tax is set to go into effect on October [...]
Hong Kong has faced a steep rise in scarlet fever cases this year: 600 infections and two fatalities. Mainland China and Macau have also seen increased numbers of cases, leading a top health official to call the outbreak “a regional phenomenon.” Scarlet fever is in the same family of diseases as strep throat. While it [...]
A recent release from MediCare International discussed key challenges facing China’s healthcare system: mainly a long history of traditional medicine and rapid medical inflation. Trying to introduce a new healthcare system that borrows from western ideas in a country which has relied on its own 2,000 year old traditions isn’t easy. Most Chinese use traditional [...]
June was a busy month in the international insurance industry, with plenty of movement and activity occurring around the world. Mergers & acquisitions are at an all time high, various national governments are debating the current worldwide costs of healthcare, and as the market slowly rebounds from the string of devastating natural disasters that struck [...]
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