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Objective:To analyze and evaluate the capacity of adolescent healthcare at health centers for women and children at district and county level in Chongqing, for theoretical basis in promoting adolescent healthcare.Methods:From January to February 2021, a unified questionnaire was used to collect the information of adolescent healthcare and data of human resources from 39 health centers for women and children at district and county level in Chongqing. The survey data were analyzed by descriptive statistics.Results:Among the 39 health centers for women and children at district and county level in Chongqing, 32 (82.1%) institutions maintain adolescent outpatient clinics, most of which under gynecology (40.6%) instead of independent departments. 37(94.9%) institutions could provide health care services for adolescents, and 26 (66.7%) institutions could provide the services both in and out-institution services. All the institutions could provide services of prevention and treatment for regular reproductive health diseases, but the numbers of institutions providing such services as nutritional assessment, common problems consultation and guidance, psycho-behavioral screening, mental health consultation and guidance, accidental injury prevention and guidance, violence injury prevention and guidance, as well as Internet addiction assessment and guidance, were 25, 20, 16, 10 and 8, respectively. There were 273 medical workers engaged in adolescent healthcare, mostly part-time (98.9%).Conclusions:The construction of outpatient clinics for adolescent health care is expected to be strengthened at health centers for women and children at district and county level in Chongqing. Meanwhile, services provision and human resources of medical workers for adolescent health care are inadequate.
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Background@#Through the years of improving quality health service delivery, hospital bed capacity in the Philippines has remained to be a persistent challenge. In light of the aim of the Universal Health Care Act to protect and promote the right to health of every Filipino, one metric used to identify areas that are in most need or are under served, is the number of public hospital beds vis a vis the catchment population. @*Methods@#The systematic review of literature was utilized to generate a policy brief presented to the invited stakeholders of the policy issue for the roundtable discussion participated by all key stakeholders of the policy issue. Evidence and insights were thematically analyzed to generate consensus policy recommendations. @*Results@#With the current hospital bed availability and maldistribution, the Philippines still faces compounded issues in addressing healthcare demands. Currently, the request for increasing bed capacity is done through legislation. In context, this request is also parallel in expanding service capacity through the allocation of more funds and personnel. The ratio of private and charity beds must ensure to have equity among all patients of varying segments of the population. Enjoining private hospitals to share bed capacity for public service was also explored given appropriate subsidies.@*Conclusion and Recommendation@#To ensure equity in health service delivery, it is imperative to assess, strategize, and conduct prioritization of the needs of government hospitals for increased bed capacity, considering the distribution, socio-demographic profile, and health needs of the catchment population.
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Objective To analyze the service demand and capacity for preventing mother-to-child transmission(MTCT) of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Guangdong, as well as to find the weakness in the work. Methods The relevant data of service demands and intervention capacity of human acquired immunodeficiency virus(HIV)-infected maternal and their babies from 2014 to 2017 was collected, and SPSS 21.0 software was employed to analyze the differences among the pearl river delta area, western area, mountainous area and eastern area, and to explore the correlation between regional midwifery institutions or personnel numbers and the rate of HIV MTCT. Results The education of HIV-infected maternal wasn’t high, generally, mainly in middle school (54.49%). The service demand of HIV-infected maternal was different in each area. The ethnic minorities outside the pearl river delta region (12.96%) and non-local living maternal in mountainous area (43.75%) were high. The proportion of maternal in the eastern area who didn’t know the route of HIV infection was also high (77.78%). The service capacity varies in each area, and the proportion (mountainous area: 41.67%, eastern area: 44.44%) of the confirmation time in intrapartum /postpartum was high among those from the mountains and eastern areas, which lead to poor intervention (the proportions of starting to antiretroviral treatment time later than 36 weeks or untreated in mountainous and eastern areas were 43.75% and 55.56%, respectively), as well as a high proportion of untreated maternal and exposed-infant (mountainous area: 2.08%, eastern area: 33.33%), and a higher percentage (11.11%) of breastfeeding in eastern area. There was no significant correlation between the number of midwifery institutions or healthcare personnel and the rate of HIV MTCT in different regions. Conclusions The mountainous and eastern areas are the weak of HIV MTCT in Guangdong Province, and later detection, less-standard intervention, and lower quality of information management are the weak steps in those areas. Targeted measures should be urgently developed to strengthen the training of the key areas to eliminate the regional differences of service capacity, which is essential to achieve the elimination of HIV MTCT in Guangdong.
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The difficulty and expense of seeing a doctor was attributed to the out-of-level diagnosis and treatment, and the out-of-level treatment was due to the weakening of the basic medical service capacity. Since the new medical reform,the state has invested a lot, which led to the weakening of the primary medical service capacity. Exploring the institutional root of the weakening of grass-roots medical service ability could help to find the realistic path to enhance the service capacity of grass-roots medical institutions. Enhancing the service capacity of primary medical institutions was the only way to implement graded medical treatment. The administration of medical institutions restricted the improvement of service capacity of primary medical institutions, and the root of administration was the existing medical and health system. Only by starting from the reform of the system and realizing the administration of primary medical institutions, the service capacity of primary medical institutions could be enhanced.
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Objective To learn the present development and comprehensive reform of county-level general hospitals in Fujian province.Methods Questionnaires were used to survey the development of 59 county-level general hospitals in 2013 and 2016 in the province. The study covered such aspects as basic profile, number of beds, human resources, service capacity, department setup and medical technology development among others. These data were replenished by information from the service capacity survey data collection system for county-level hospitals of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The data so acquired were subject to descriptive statistics. Results 59 such hospitals had made developments and progress to various extents in terms of the number of beds, human resources, medical service capacity, department setup and medical technology development. Compared with those in 2013, their beds, employees, and number of inpatients and outpatients had grown by 3. 78% , 12. 24% and 7. 95% respectively. Conclusions These hospitals should, based on scientific planning, appropriately scale up, strengthen their high-caliber talent teams, focus on the development of key technologies and key weak disciplines. These efforts will help develop core competitiveness, and deepen their comprehensive reform.
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Objective To investigate the status quo of Otolaryngology services in county-level hospitals in Ningxia,to know its developmentbottlenecks and shortcomings,and to provide suggestions for promotion of Otolaryngotogy medical service ability in county-level hospitals in Ningxia.Methods By cluster sampling method,and through questionaire survey,investigating and analyzing the actuality of Otorhinolaryngology in county-level hospitals in Ningxia.Results The current status of Otorhinolaryngology in county-level hospitals in Ningxia was lower than the standard of county-level hospitals.The number of personnel and equipment is seriously insufficient.Few medical technology can be carried out.The number of outpatients and discharged patients increases.The number of outgoing patients increases.Conclusion The medical service ability of Otorhinolaryngology in county-level hospitals in Ningxia is low.It is suggested to formulate development plans and to innovate development way;to develop human resources,and to upgrade technical level;to use information platform,and to joint construction of academic alliances.
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Objective To evaluate the present family doctors staffing and service capacity building in Changning under the linkage reform of contracting service and health insurance payment . Methods The staffing data of family doctors were collected from the 2013-2015 annual reports ,while the data on their qualifications ,training ,job stress and competence were collected from two follow-up investigations. These data were analyzed with descriptive statistics .Results in 2016 ,the number of family doctors totaled 27000 ,up to 2.75 doctors per 10000 people.Over 97％ of the family doctors were qualification certificated.More than half of the family doctors participated in the standardized training .68.80％ (97/141)of the family doctors complained overwork.More than 80％ of the family doctors have encountered technical problems with medical services .Conclusions The number and quality of family doctors in Changning have been greatly improved to satisfy contracting services of the residents to a minimal extent. However ,more family doctors are needed ,as they still face much work stress. The family doctors call for standardized training ,better payroll and incentive mechanism ,better career development and coordinated support mechanism ,as well as better team building for greater performance .
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Objective To analyze and compare the capacity and efficiency of county-level hospitals′medical service by using the diagnosis related groups ( DRGs ) method. Methods The homepage data of discharged inpatients from seven county-level hospitals in Wenzhou region in 2013 - 2015 period were analyzed, for measurement of the medical service capacity changes of such hospitals using the number of DRGs, total multiplicity of weight, and CMI value, and that of their medical service efficiency changes using expense consumption index and time consumption index. Results The study found in the seven hospitals 8. 49% increase of the total number of DRGs, 17. 34% increase of total multiplicity of weight, and 5. 06%increase of CMI value, with unchanged expense consumption index and 9. 82% decrease of the time consumption index. These facts evidenced enhancements of these hospitals in both service capacity and service efficiency in general. Conclusions DRGs as tools prove useful objectively and scientifically. Policies of Two emphases at primary ends and two enhancements have been implemented desirably.
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Objective:To understand the current service capacity of village clinics in H District of Beijing, to find out the existing problems and deficiencies, and to provide the basis for the development of village health poli-cy. Methods:The census method was used to investigate all the village clinics in H District of Beijing, and 260 rural doctors were investigated. Purposive sampling method was used to select 3 townships in H District of Beijing and 6 villages in each township as the research field. Observation and in-depth interviews were used in this study, and the sample size was 18 rural doctors. Results: At present, the village clinic in H district of Beijing has the problems of low quality of personnel, lack of business premises, inadequate infrastructure, and poor service capaci-ty. Conclusion:In order to improve the service capacity of village clinic in H District of Beijing City, it is sugges-ted to establish human resources management system, improve the overall quality of rural doctors, manage systemat-ically and improve the level of resource allocation in village clinics.
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The research probed into studies at home and abroad on the correlation between hospital service capacity and quality of care,without finding definite correlation between the two.In view of such issue in China,the authors discussed the corelation between hospital service capacity and quality of care of China's hospitals,the relationship between hospital scale expansion and medical quality,and the evaluation of medical quality,providing references for researchers and policy-makers.
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The theory of multiple streams,a vehicle of public policy analysis in the West,was used to analyze the policy development at Beijing′s suburban village clinics.This approach can clarify the issue steams,policy streams,and political streams,as well as the links between them,as a reference for standardized and quickened development such clinics.