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Objective To find out research progress for remote medical treatment of basic medical insurance in China,in order to provide evidences for further research and policy-making.Methods Doing literature research.Results Research progress is summarized from five aspects,such as concepts and theoretical basis,causes of remote medical treatment and different social problems caused by it,the observation of domestic and foreign experiences,shift and continuity of basic medical insurance for rural residents,as well as instant reimbursement.Conclusion The enlightenment from the existing research is put forward,that is to solve the related problems of remote medical treatment.The most important thing is to classify the people who need remote medical treatment,and then to give solutions acording to different categories.
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<p><b>Background</b>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common chronic liver diseases with a high prevalence in the general population. The association between NAFLD and cardiovascular disease has been well addressed in previous studies. However, whether NAFLD is associated with carotid artery disease in a community-based Chinese population remained unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between NAFLD and carotid artery disease.</p><p><b>Methods</b>A total of 2612 participants (1091 men and 1521 women) aged 40 years and older from Jidong of Tangshan city (China) were selected for this study. NAFLD was diagnosed by abdominal ultrasonography. The presence of carotid stenosis or plaque was evaluated by carotid artery ultrasonography. Logistic regression was used to analyze the association between NAFLD and carotid artery disease.</p><p><b>Results</b>Participants with NAFLD have a higher prevalence of carotid stenosis (12.9% vs. 4.6%) and carotid plaque (21.9% vs. 15.0%) than those without NAFLD. After adjusting for age, gender, smoking status, income, physical activity, diabetes, hypertension, triglyceride, waist-hip ratio, and high-density lipoprotein, NAFLD is significantly associated with carotid stenosis (odds ratio [OR]: 2.06, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.45-2.91), but the association between NAFLD and carotid plaque is not statistically significant (OR: 1.10, 95% CI: 0.8-1.40).</p><p><b>Conclusion</b>A significant association between NAFLD and carotid stenosis is found in a Chinese population.</p>
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Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Carotid Artery Diseases , Carotid Intima-Media Thickness , China , Cross-Sectional Studies , Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease , Prevalence , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Objective To study the hotspots and trend in research of wearable device. Methods The research hotspots and trend of wearable device were analyzed by literature investigation and bibliometrics. Results The pros-pect of wearable device is broad in the coming years. The powerful electronic and technological nations such as USA and South Korea were the major original places of new technologies for wearable device. The core competitive-ness, complete industry chain, main manufacture system and application of wearable device in our country still had a long way to go compared with those in USA and South Korea. Co-word and clustering analysis showed that the current research hotspots of wearable device were its design concept, new sensor technology and energy store device technology. Literature investigation revealed that independence, low endurance high integration technology, human-computer interaction technology, big data and cloud technology were the main trend of future wearable device. Conclusion Wearable device is still in its initial stage with a lot of problems to be solved in its design, function and management. However, its development prospect is broad.
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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) has been further adjusted and optimized to reduce the financial burden of rural residents and to achieve universal coverage for them. In this study, we aimed to explore the impact of NCMS on medical service utilization and medical expense of inpatients in recent years.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The research data of Hainan Province were extracted from the Chinese NCMS platform from 2012 to 2014. Detailed information included total expenditure, average inpatients costs, average out-of-pocket payments, actual reimbursement rate, and average annual growth rate of the above indicators. Descriptive analysis was used to gauge the effects of NCMS.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>In the utilization of medical services, NCMS inpatients in tertiary hospital decreased from 25.49% in 2012 to 20.39% in 2014, inpatients in county hospitals increased from 39.49% to 55.92%, simultaneously. The total expenditure in county hospitals rose steadily from 28.46% to 46.66%, meanwhile, the total expenditure in tertiary hospitals fell from 60.44% to 44.51%.The average out-of-pocket costs of rural inpatients remained stable over the years. Furthermore, the compensation fund of NCMS inpatients grew significantly. The actual inpatient reimbursement rate at township health centers increased from 76.93% to 84.04%. Meanwhile, the rate at county hospitals and tertiary hospitals increased slightly from 59.37% and 46.10% to 61.25% and 47.71%, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>With the improvement of the reimbursement ability, especially after the new health care reform in 2009, the NCMS have been playing a prominent role in alleviating the economic burden of farmers' medical treatment. Meanwhile, more patients go to primary hospitals than tertiary hospitals, and the capability of primary hospitals has been greatly improved.</p>
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Female , Humans , Male , China , Health Expenditures , Hospitalization , Inpatients , Insurance, Health , Economics , Rural PopulationABSTRACT
Objective To establish a general health information construction effect evaluation model for overall as-sessment of health information construction effect .Methods Domestic and foreign health information construction effect evaluation models were systematically analyzed by bibliometric analysis , comparative analysis , inductive and deductive method,repectively.The classic health information construction effect models were integrated.Results The health information construction effect evaluation model was established from the technique-organization man-agement-operation supportangle .Conclusion Thehealth information construction effects include technique effect, organization mangement effect, and operation effect.Thegeneral health information construction effect evaluation model is established, which includes 7 primary indexes and 20 secondaey indexes.