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National Project of Hope: Healthy Taiwan, Happy Aging Society

Source (Chinese): https://taiwan2024.tw/policies/3

• Healthy Taiwan: Ensuring the Health of the People, Strengthening the Nation, Embracing Taiwan by the World
• Health is my promise to all citizens
  • Health is a symbol of a civilized nation
  • Health is the foundation of a happy society
• Key Point 1: Passing the “Health Charter.”
  • Future national construction or policies should adhere to the principle of health. The five major action plans of the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion:
    • Build healthy public policy
    • Create supportive environments for health
    • Strengthen community action for health
    • Develop personal skills
    • Reorient health services
• Key Point 2: Continuously improve medical service quality and enhance the health of the people
  • Optimize medical education, support basic research, emphasize clinical services, and encourage international exchange
  • Strengthen medical team cooperation and promote interdisciplinary integration between medical and non-medical teams, including public health, disease prevention, health promotion (nutrition, sports, wellness), mental health, medical, rehabilitation, etc., covering prevention and treatment of prevalent diseases at different stages for the people
  • Propose medical plans for different genders and ages
• Key Point 3: Improve the working environment for medical personnel and enhance medical workforce supplementation
  • Improve the treatment of medical staff and solve manpower shortages in various medical fields
  • Support diverse methods for nursing licensure exams, expand enrollment quotas in university nursing departments, and legally establish nurse-to-patient ratios for three shifts
• Key Point 4: Ensure sustainable operation of health insurance and actively introduce health promotion and disease prevention
  • Secure health insurance finances and protect public medical rights
  • Promote smart healthcare and set concrete indicators to improve quality and efficiency
  • Implement a family doctor system and promote home medical services
  • Promote the integration of various medical resources to enhance resource efficiency and alleviate the growth pressure of medical expenses
• Key Point 5: Comprehensively optimize children's medical care
  • Strengthen care for newborns and high-risk pregnant women and actively reduce infant mortality rates
  • Establish a three-tier “Children's Medical Care Network” with core hospitals, key hospitals, and primary institutions and protect the medical rights of critically ill children and those with rare diseases
• Key Point 6: Increase mental health support, and expand the “Youth Mental Health Support Program,” and develop “Community Mental Health Services” to support individuals with mental disabilities and their families.
• Key Point 7: Strengthen the “National Cancer Prevention and Treatment Plan”
  • The goal is to reduce cancer mortality by one-third by 2030.
  • Expand services like cancer screening and genetic testing and use diverse methods to reduce premature cancer mortality rates among people
  • Provide advanced cancer treatments early, based on patient conditions
  • Establish a “Ten Billion Cancer Drug Fund” to lighten the burden of cancer patients
• Key Point 8: Improve health services for Indigenous people, broadly allocating health budgets as per the Indigenous Peoples Health Act and enhancing medical resources and professional capabilities in Indigenous areas
• Key Point 9: Combine smart healthcare with healthcare and promote the biomedical industry as the next trillion-dollar industry:
  • Use information and communication technology to enhance healthcare efficiency and quality, such as “telemedicine”
  • Combine ICT and semiconductor industries through “Bio+ICT” integration, accelerating our country's smart healthcare, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, and biotech new drug development
  • Link north-south biotech parks, creating the “Taiwan Biomedical Industry Corridor”
  • Promote the establishment of genetic and health insurance big data databases, using big data analysis, artificial intelligence, etc., to establish a more efficient healthcare service system
• Long-term Care 3.0: A Happy Society for the Aging
  • Strengthening care for severely disabled individuals, optimizing residential service institutions
  • Care without leaving employment, respite for caregivers
  • Increasing long-term care service coverage, enhancing care service functions
  • Creating an integrated service system of home, community, institution, medical, and social welfare
• Key Point 1: Strengthening care for severely disabled individuals, optimizing residential service institutions
  • Add home or community-based nighttime home care and emergency services, and establish 24-hour support services for severely disabled individuals
  • Increase the capacity of residential service institutions for severely disabled individuals, surveying public land for government-operated institutions, and provide more public residential services
    • Or through providing land to private operators, establish quasi-public residential institutions
  • The “Residential Service Institution User Subsidy Program” has already increased from a maximum of 60,000 NTD per year to 120,000 NTD, and the means-testing rule has been removed.
    • This will continue to increase to a maximum of 15,000 NTD per month, totaling 180,000 NTD per year.
• Key Point 2: Care without leaving employment, respite for caregivers.
  • For mildly and moderately disabled individuals, increase the proportion of community care services that serve multiple individuals, improving manpower efficiency
  • Encourage businesses to implement flexible work arrangements for employees with family care needs
  • Strengthen the provision of “respite services” for family caregivers
  • Expand the pilot of the full responsibility care system, continue increasing hospital care staff, and ensure stable manpower and service quality
  • Improve the Barthel Index and establish diverse standards based on age, physical and mental disabilities, serious injury or illness, rare diseases, cancer, stroke, etc., to meet care service needs
• Key Point 3: Increasing long-term care service coverage, enhancing care service functions.
  • Expand the service capacity of grassroots care points
  • Strengthen the “care service” function of community-based service points, optimize care and daycare for the elderly, communal dining, meal delivery, health education, communal exercise, group activities, etc.
  • Utilize innovative care technology to provide cloud-based digital diagnosis services and remote home care for the elderly
• Key Point 4: Creating an integrated service system of home, community, institution, medical, and social welfare.
  • Establish a symbiotic community based on the long-term care community care system
  • Expand discharge preparation and subsidize hospitals to connect with the manpower needed for long-term care
  • Implement home medical and long-term care integration, promoting a family doctor system for the elderly
  • Optimize barrier-free living and expand and subsidize the installation of elevators and lifts in older apartment buildings