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Objective To understand the status of sexually transmitted infection and seeking medical treatment behavior, and influencing factors of Vietnamese cross-border female sex workers (FSWs) in Hekou County, Yunnan, and to provide a basis for promoting reproductive health and preventing and controlling the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in Vietnamese cross-border FSWs. Methods The snowball sampling method was used to recruit research subjects in entertainment venues in Hekou County, Yunnan, to conduct a questionnaire survey and collect blood, vaginal secretions and cervical swab specimens for HIV/STD testing. Results A total of 262 Vietnamese cross-border FSWs were investigated. The total infection rate of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV was 35.8% (94/262). The positive rate of genital herpes simplex, fungal vaginitis, trichomoniasis, wet warts and chlamydia were 23.5%, 8.0%, 2.7%, 1.5% and 1.5%, respectively. The positive rate of HIV was 1.5%. In the past year, 116 Vietnamese cross-border FSWs had symptoms related to sexually transmitted diseases. Among them, 34.5% chose to go to the hospital or private outpatient clinic, 44.8% bought medicines by themselves, and 20.7% did not receive any treatment. The FSWs who reported having sexually transmitted diseases testing in the past year (OR=3.54, P<0.05), came from medium and high-end places (OR=3.94, P<0.05), had more than two symptoms (OR=3.88, P<0.05), and self-perceived high risk of sexually transmitted infection were more likely to seek medical treatment. Conclusion The Vietnamese cross-border FSW population in Hekou County of Yunnan Province had a high rate of sexually transmitted infections. The proportion of seeking medical treatment among FSWs having symptoms related to sexually transmitted diseases was low. It is necessary to guide the Vietnamese cross-border FSWs to seek formal medical treatment.
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Objective:It discussed the decision-making mechanism of medical market on supply side and how the hierarchical medical system help inhibiting the excessive medical behavior.Methods:Establishing medical behavior choice model based on the perspective of supply side and hierachy diagnosis Results and Conclusion:In the case of incomplete information and rigid demand hypothesis,the patient would accept all the supplies doctor offered and there was structural unbalance in both general medical market and advanced medical market which meant the excessive medical treatment existed.Under the hierarchical medical system,distinguishing by primary medical institution,both generalmedical market and advanced medical market reached equilibrium which improved the social resource allocation efficiency and the patients' welfare at the same time.
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Objective:To investigate the behaviors of the patients in clinic and analyze the behavior of the patients.Methods: To extract the basic information, diagnostic information, prescription information and so on from the 2013-2014 HIS database of Tai’an traditional Chinese medicine hospital to establish data model. The structure and flow of patients in the hospital had been analyzed by the data model.Results:Data analysis is the effective support of the hospital's continuous improvement service.Conclusion:Based on the HIS database to analyze the behaviors of the patients can let the manager from the perspective see a hospital running status, and this is the hospital management “precision decision-making” reference.