Fung is the Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. [...] Apart from implementing ongoing projects and policies, the task of the restructured policy body is to ensure the sustainable development of the public healthcare system and to support the development of industries in such aspects as public health strategies, health technology, the research and development of drugs, and medical manpower (The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. [...] If you project further from 2018 onwards, we can see that for the next 20 to 30 years we will see a steep rise in the median age of the people of Hong Kong and a steep rise in the proportion of elderly in the Hong Kong population. [...] With the commitment at Astana and then the emergence of COVID-19, a lot of the planning that people were doing and a lot of the planned investment went out the window. [...] Underpinning this is what we call the Quadruple Aim of strengthening primary care: improving the health of the population; reducing the cost of care; doing things more efficiently and 30 Building a Sustainable Healthcare System for Hong Kong enhancing the patient experience so that people get better care and are more satisfied; and improving the satisfaction of our healthcare providers.
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