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CARE

Part of the International Long-Term Care Policy Network (ILPN)

 

He Chen

Renmin University of China

He Chen

He Chen received her Ph.D. in Demography from Peking University in 2013 and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. Her primary research areas include long-term care social security systems and population health. She has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed English and Chinese academic journals, including top journals such as The Lancet and the BMJ. She has also contributed to United Nations and World Health Organization publications, including Disparities among Older Persons in China and Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE): Guidance for Person-Centered Assessment and Pathways in Primary Care through writing or translation.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries China;
Topics Access to care; Costs of LTC; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Long term care subsidies; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC utitilisation; Social Insurance; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Difference-in-differences; Event study; Observational studies; Panel data analysis; Pilot study; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Simulation models; Systematic Review;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care in China; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods;
Research interests

Long-term care and health expectancy
Key publications
  1. Huang Z, Jian A, Wang J, Chen H*. The effects of public long-term care insurance on the long-term care industry in China: a quasi-experimental study. BMC Geriatrics. 2025;25(1):276. doi: 10.1186/s12877-025-05933-6.
  2. Ma Q, Ning J, Chen H*. Changes of filial responsibility norms under public long‐term care insurance in China. Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 2025;25(4):606-19. doi: 10.1111/ggi.70009.
  3. Chen H, Li M, Zhang Y*. Educational attainment and male-female health-survival paradox among older adults in China: a nationally representative longitudinal study. BMC Geriatrics. 2025;25:112.
  4. Ning J, Chen H, Li M. Does income matter for the policy effect of public long-term care insurance on informal care use in China? A quasi-experimental study. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2024; 29(04):248-256.
  5. Chen H, Ning J, Hu H, et al. Distribution of the compression and expansion of morbidity in 194 countries and territories, 1990–2016: The role of income inequality. Sociology of Health & Illness, 2023, 45(7): 1523-1540.
  6. Chen H, Ning J. Public long-term care insurance scheme and informal care use among community-dwelling older adults in China. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2022, 30(6): E6386-E6395.
  7. Chen H, Ning J. The impacts of long-term care insurance on health care utilization and expenditure: evidence from China. Health Policy and Planning, 2022, 37(6): 717-727.
  8. Chen H, Chen G, Guo Y,* Zheng X.* Contribution of specific diseases and injuries to changes in health adjusted life expectancy in 187 countries from 1990 to 2013: retrospective observational study. BMJ-British Medical Journal, 2019, 364: 1969 .
  9. Cao Y, # Chen H, # Zhao DY, Zhang L, Yu XG, Zhou XM, Liu ZS.* The efficacy of Tung acupuncture’s for sex hormones in polycystic ovary syndrome: A randomized controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2019; 44: 182-8.
  10. Chen H, Cheng ML, Zhuang Y, Broad JB.* Multimorbidity among middle-aged and older persons in urban China: prevalence, characteristics and health service utilization. Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 2018, 18(10):1447-52.
  11. Chen H, Chen Y, Cui B.* The association of multimorbidity with healthcare expenditure among the elderly patients in Beijing, China. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.2018,79:32-8.
  12. Chen H, Hu H.* The relationship and mechanism between education and functional health status transition among older persons in China. BMC Geriatrics. 2018, 18: 89.
  13. Witness C, Chen H.* Comparative study of disability-free life expectancy across six low- and middle-income countries. Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 2017, 17(4): 637- 44.
  14. Chen H, Meng T.* (2015) Bonding, bridging, and linking social capital and self-rated health among Chinese adults: use of the anchoring vignettes technique. PLoS One, 10: e0142300 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142300.
  15. Meng T, Chen H.* A multilevel analysis of social capital and self-rated health: evidence from China. Health & Place, 2014, 27: 38-44.
  16. Chen H, Wang H., Crimmins E, Chen G, Huang C, Zheng X.* The contributions of diseases to disability burden among the elderly population in China. Journal of Aging and Health. 2014, 26(2), 261-282.
  17. Chen H#, Du W#, Li N, Chen G, Zheng X.* The socioeconomic inequality in traffic- related disability among Chinese adults: the application of concentration index. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2013, 55: 101-106.