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杜蘭大學中華民國(台灣)同學會 News and Announcements


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The PBS aired a program “Sick Around the World” in FRONTLINE on April 15, 2008 to describe health-care systems of five developed capitalist democracies –UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan. At the end of the program, the conclusion drawn was that Taiwan’s health system may be one of the best in the world. The 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Professor Paul Krugman, also mentioned that the US should consider following Taiwan’s example in reforming American’s health care system.
Due to high level of interests in Taiwan’s health care system in the USA now, the Department of Health Systems Management (HSM) at School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, has decided to organize a seminar on the topic. It will be of great value for researchers, policy-makers, students and all others interested in health reform discussions to learn about Taiwan’s system directly from the decision-makers of the system, those who played crucial roles in its design, development and implementation.
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4:30 p.m. CDT, Sunday, August 31, 2008
University Reopening Delayed Due to Mandatory Evacuation
The mandatory evacuation of Orleans Parish makes the logistics of reopening Tulane University on the originally stated dates--Wednesday, Sept. 3 and Thursday, Sept. 4--very difficult. Therefore, we have decided to resume normal business operations on Saturday, Sept. 6. The dorms will reopen on Sunday, Sept. 7, and classes will resume on Monday, Sept. 8. Our next update will be tomorrow at 3 p.m.