One article examined whether catastrophic health expenditure was associated with older adults’ physical and mental health in rural and urban China. The other one explored changes in health experienced by middle-aged and older adults in China and the extent to which they are associated with changes in individual work and income outcomes.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy and the Fordham Research Consortium on Disability invite you to submit a paper to the multidisciplinary and international Social Policy and Disability Symposium. The symposium will provide a forum, taking place on Nov. 12-13, 2020, in New York City, to discuss how disability is considered in the design, implementation and evaluation of social policies.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy will host the 2020 Spring Lecture Series.
Culture-bridging food and entertainment marked the first-ever student-led celebration at the School.
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference offers a scientific program that reflects a broad range of research interests of social work scholars. This year, China Center research team members will present new findings on aging, health, immigration, poverty, and social policy at the SSWR 2020 conference at Marriott Marquis Washington DC from Jan. 15 to 19, 2020. Here is a list of the presentations.
Aging studies specialist Jinyu Liu is working on a novel intervention for caregiving in New York City’s Chinese American community.
According to the findings of Professor Qin Gao and her colleagues, China, too, has a ways to go in lessening the “double burden” carried by its working women.
Fall 2019 was a productive semester for the Columbia China Center for Social Policy. The Center research team has published widely in areas of aging, care, and health, gender inequality, migration and child development, and poverty and social assistance. Here is a list of the publications.
An expanded poverty tracking survey will now look at early childhood poverty and the experiences of Asian-American New Yorkers.
The 2019 CHINA Town Hall successfully took place on November 18 at the Columbia School of Social Work, with joint efforts from the China Center for Social Policy and the Office of Professional Excellence, Columbia was one of the 80+ local partners of the National Committee throughout the United States and China.
The Urban China Forum 2019 was successfully held in Avery Hall on October 5th with the theme of “Urbanization and China: Understanding Impacts, Projecting Future.” The forum welcomed 9 speakers, including renowned scholars and emerging practitioners from the U.S., China, Canada, and the U.K., with the topics on political and sociological dynamics as well as built environment.