The purpose of this study is to compare Taiwan？HH？HHs management mechanism of traditional medicine to those of other neighborhood countries including Mainland China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Policy-makers and hospital managers can realize the strength, weakness, threat and opportunity of our traditional medicine by SWOT analysis.After several years？HH？HH negotiation, Taiwan has become the 144 membership of World Trade Organization (WTO) on 2002. However, for several industries including traditional medicine, the WTO agreements bring us not only trading benefit but also operating competition by removing trading barriers. Both policy-makers and hospital managers should realize the management mechanisms of traditional medicine for neighborhood countries. Collecting necessary information, we analyze the difference and similarity of management mechanisms of traditional medicine for several neighborhood countries from three perspectives-government, health care institute and education.Comparative research is adopted in this study. The information of management mechanisms for each country is collected by reviewing literature, oversea visiting and focus interviewing with key person. For each country, three levels (government, hospital, education) will be discussed separately. Each level is further discussed form three sub-perspectives-structure, process and performance. Finally, SWOT analysis will be reached through expert panel.
