“Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” is a regular academic exchange platform held by School of Finance. It aims to offer valuable occasions of communications among scholars in our college, between teachers and students, the domestic and the oversea. In this semester, we keep our original intention, set off for a new voyage. We will devote ourselves to fostering the academic atmosphere in the college, and promoting the academic level for both teachers and students.

The fifth session of “Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” for the Autumn Semester in 2023 is arranged as follows:

Lecture topic

The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreaks on Healthcare Accessibility: Evidence from China  

Keynote Speaker: Wang Xiaoqian

Commentator: Fu Mingwei

Date

Thursday, October 26th, 2023

Time

12:00-13:00

Lecture Venue  

Room 116, School of Finance

Abstract

With the world continuing to battle communicable diseases periodically, some pandemics led to health damage for both the infected and non-infected populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Part of the deaths were of non-COVID-19 patients who could not receive timely medical treatment. Using administrative data on medical-related requests to the government in a large city in China, this paper documents that the pandemic and the related containment measures have greatly affected healthcare accessibility. The daily number of requests related to healthcare accessibility increased by 133.2 percent and 39.1 percent during the first and second outbreaks, respectively. Cancer and cardiovascular diseases were the most affected diseases. Medications, surgical therapeutic interventions, and diagnostic interventions were the most affected services.