Statements and Resolutions

Taiwan's Healthcare System

Taiwan has established a modern and world-class healthcare system. All medical and healthcare professionals work to uphold the goal of the government to promote and maintain the health of all people in Taiwan by driving forward various health-related tasks with the hope that everyone will receive "friendly, convenient and efficient" health and medical care service.

• Taiwan has established the first universal health insurance system in Asia. (97% coverage and 70% approval rate)
• In 2002, Taiwan had 18,228 medical care institutions, one physician for every 632 people, and 40 hospital beds for every 10,000 people.
• Taiwan enjoys one of the highest levels of life expectancy in Asia, 73 years for males and 78 for females.
• Taiwan has eradicated many communicable diseases such as plague, smallpox, rabies, malaria and poliomyelitis.
• Taiwan provides all children with free hepatitis B vaccinations.

In the year 2000, the Economist Intelligence Unit of the United Kingdom rated the medical care in Taiwan the second among all developed countries and newly industrialized countries, next only to Sweden.