Policy analysis on targeted admission medical education program in rural areas / 中国卫生政策研究

This paper analyzes the document contents of targeted admission medical students in 16 provinces of China in 2016.Through analyses of the characteristics of the program, this study found that, 1) the number of admissions is determined by the national level and issued to the provincial level, where rural students are the main source of students, undergraduate program is the main enrollment category, and clinical medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are the main majors of admission;2) the number of admissions and the actual demand of health professionals of primary health care institutions do not match, the incubation period is too long, there is a shortage of targeted training model, contract signing is difficult to implement, and other problems.Therefore, in accordance with the problems, this paper suggests that, 1) the government should increase the number of admissions to match with the demands;2) a three-year bachelor's degree should be set up in order to shorten the incubation period;3) the training model of targeted admission medical students should be changed;and 4) various powerful measures should be carried out to attract and keep excellent health care professionals.

Is a mass prevention and control program for pandemic [H1N1] 2009 good value for money? evidence from the chinese experience

In order to provide guidance on the efficient allocation of health resources when handling public health emergencies in the future, the study evaluated the H1N1 influenza prevention and control program in Hubei Province of China using cost-benefit analysis. The costs measured the resources consumed and other expenses incurred in the prevention and control of H1N1. The assumed benefits include resource consumption and economic losses which could be avoided by the measures for the prevention and control of H1N1. The benefit was evaluated by counterfactual thinking, which estimates the resource consumption and economic losses could be happened without any measures for the prevention and control, which have been avoided after measures were taken to prevent and control H1N1 in Hubei Province, these constitutes the benefit of this project. The total costs of this program were 38.81 million U.S. dollars, while the total benefit was assessed as 203.71 million U.S. dollars. The net benefit was 164.9 million U.S. dollars with a cost-effectiveness ratio of 1:5.25. The joint prevention and control strategy introduced by Hubei for H1N1 influenza is cost effective