Monday, September 12, 2005

梁浙西 (Dr. Jersey Liang)

浙西於一九七八年獲得密西根威恩州立大學(Wayne State University)社會學博士學位,目前任職密西根大學公共衛生學院教授
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory St., M3234 SPH II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029

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個人小檔案

Jersey Liang is a Professor of Health Management and Policy and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Gerontology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1978.

Dr. Liang's research interests focus on health related quality of life, long-term care, and comparative health care and aging. With reference to health related quality of life, Liang is interested in issues related to its conceptualization and measurement at the individual level and the estimation of health expectancy at the population level. In addition, Liang is interested in the dynamics of health care utilization and the interface between long-term care and acute care within a health care system. A recent interest has been the analysis of the performance of long-term care organizations in terms of the cost and quality of care.

Since the mid-1980s, Liang has been actively engaged in comparative studies of health, health care, and aging involving the U.S., Japan, Chinese Mainland, and Taiwan. Currently, Liang and his colleagues have established three longitudinal data bases involving population based representative samples of elderly people in Japan, Taiwan, and Wuhan, China. Within this context, Liang is interested in the cross-cultural comparability in health related quality of life, and variations in health care and sickness careers across different health systems.

Liang’s teaching interests concentrate on social gerontology, long-term care, medical sociology, and research methods. As a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Liang has received two National Institute on Aging MERIT awards. He was the editor for Social Sciences, Journal of Gerontology, and has served on study sections at the National Institutes of Health and the editorial boards of a number of professional journals.

梁教授小照


看!浙西心滿意足地笑得多開心哪
攝於一九九九年三月


闔家同遊多倫多《二千零五年十月一日》
全家福


梁夫人與唐夫人


Jessica and Nathan in Ryan's room


梁教授學術研究專頁http://www.sph.umich.edu/hmp/faculty/jliang.html