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The policy of long-term prescription for chronic diseases in China is gradually being improved and implemented， and external long-term prescription dispensing is being encouraged. The long-term prescription policy runs through the links of drug supply， equipment， use and policy， involving government departments such as medical security and health， as well as stakeholders such as patients， medical institutions and designated detail pharmacies. There are still some problems in the external dispensing of long-term prescriptions， such as the disunity of drug catalogue and the need for coordination among regulatory parties in the policy link； the need to improve the participation enthusiasm and service ability in the equipment link； the increased difficulty of prescription management， the need to improve the circulation platform in the use link. The promotion of external long-term prescription policy requires health insurance， medical service， and the medicine industry co-development， multi-party participation， and policy coordination. Among them， the “dual channel” policy， the policy of centralized medicine procurement， and the pharmacy included in outpatient overall management policy have all played a positive role in promoting the implementation of external long-term prescription dispensing for chronic diseases. It is necessary to improve supporting policies and implement regulatory responsibilities in the policy link， promote drug classification and service capabilities in the equipment link， improve the electronic prescription circulation platform， and strengthen prescription management in use link， so as to promote the implementation of external long-term prescription dispensing.
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Although the Shanghai's basic health insurance always takes the leading position nationwide in the aspects of coverage, funding level, security level, etc, it still cannot avoid the contradictory problems brought by the rapidly rising demand for health care, poor results of funds management, etc. Commercial health insurance has its u-nique advantages in terms of funds and personnel management. Therefore, they can play their complementary role to the basic medical insurance in order to improve the basic health insurance system. Based on the perspective of com-mercial health insurances, this paper explores the basic health insurance system in Shanghai from the aspects of man-agement patterns, governing body, insurance objects, funding modalities and insurance programs.
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This study was undertaken to address practical problems in maternal health care [MHC] utilization and conduct in-depth study of maternal health services utilization in underdeveloped countries[regions], thus to contribute to the achieving of the UN Millennium Development Goal 5. After searching and screening based on key words like "MHC" and "utilization", we included 45 English articles and 106 Chinese articles from Pubmed, Medline, China Knowledge Resource Integrated and Wang Fang data base. The research themes, issues, designs, perspectives, dimensions and methods of these dissertations were analyzed. The development of MHC utilization research can be divided into three phases: Studies of the first phase focused primarily on decreasing MMR, which caused attention to the central and western rural areas maternal health services in China from domestic as well as international community; Studies of the second phase centered around the practical impacts of the implementation of MHC relevant programs and policy, confirming that the implementation of these programs and policies improved MHC service delivery and utilization, and promoted cooperation between researchers and practitioners; Studies of the third phase focused on the quality of MHC service utilization. We also found that the major problem in the current MHC service utilization is the huge gap across regions and the existing researches lack innovation and comparison researches between in different countries. Research themes of MHC services change regularly. We should grasp the characteristics and defects of current research to increase the innovation of future research and to better response to the problem solving, and thus to provide more valuable reference for the policy and practice of underdeveloped countries and areas
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Objective To evaluate the quality of life(QOL)of postpartum women within six months after delivery in Pudong New Area in Shanghai.Methods From January 1st to June 30th in 2011,435 postpartum women,discharged from Children and Women's Health Care Hospital in Pudong New Area,Gaoqiao Community Health Service Center and Lujiazui Community Health Service Center in Pudong New Area,were investigated by SF 36 questionaire including eight items [physical functioning (PF),role limitations due to physical problems (RP),bodily pain (BP),general health (GH),vitality (VT),social functioning (SF),role limitations due to emotional problems (RE) and mental health (MH)] and divided into three subgroups according to the duration after delivery (8-42,43-119 and 120 180 d).The SF-36 scores were compared with the control (baseline data of 25 to 36-year-old young women in Pudong New Area) or within the three groups.Statistical methods,such as t-test and analysis of variance,were applied.Results (1) The tota lscore and the scores of the seven items in SF-36 were lower than those of control (total score:74.2±11.7 vs 80.5,PF:79.0±19.0 vs 94.6,RP:47.5±12.2 vs 85.7,BP:74.0±18.7 vs 78.4,GH:73.9±13.1 vs 71.0,VT:69.8±16.2 vs 75.0,SF:78.3±20.1 vs 86.9,RE:63.4±21.7 vs 83.5,t=-11.225,-17.105,-18.914,-4.893,3.688,-6.642,-8.881 and-10.076,all P＜0.05) and no significant difference was found in MH score between the postpartum women and the control (78.3±15.0 vs 77.8,t=0.629,P＞0.05).Compared the SF-36 scores in three subgroups (8 42,43-119 and 120 180 d postpartum),the differences on PF score(73.0±19.1,86.3± 17.1,89.1±12.9),RP score(32.4±18.6,57.7±19.1,79.9±12.0),BP score(70.7±18.0,75.6±19.0,81.6±17.3),SF score(76.3±19.6,78.2±21.7,83.9±19.3),RE score(58.5±12.9,71.4± 18.3,70.1± 19.5) and SF-36 total score (72.2± 11.1,76.1± 12.8,78.0± 11.1) were all significant (F=37.744,60.640,13.137,5.185,4.577 and 10.548,allP＜0.05).The PF,VT,RE and total score of postpartum women at 120-180 days after delivery were still lower than those of the control group(t=-4.174,-2.353,-3.341 and-2.166,all P＜0.05).Conclusions The QOL of postpartum women within six months after delivery is not good enough.Up to 120-180 days after delivery,the QOL remains.More efforts should be made to improve the QOL of postpartum women by the whole society.