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Objective To study the rural residents′ satisfaction for services of village clinics in Shandong province, identify the influencing factors and put forward feasible suggestions and countermeasures. Methods The method of multi-stage stratified random sampling was used in 54 villages of 18 counties from six prefectures,with 1 590 rural residents randomly sampled for questionnaire survey and interview. This survey called into play the composition ratio for descriptive analysis,and univariate analysis and multinomial logistic regression for identifying the influencing factors. Results The rural residents′overall satisfaction for services of village clinics was acceptable as 65.6% of them were satisfied,yet still at a low level. Major influencing factors for the satisfaction are service attitude and communication ability of rural doctors, drug availability at village clinics, and conditions of equipments and environment. Conclusions Authors proposed such measures as strengthening training of the service attitude and communication ability of rural doctors, scientifically adjusting and refining the types and quantities of essential drugs and continuing to better the conditions of equipments and environment of village clinics. These measures aim at further improving rural residents′satisfaction for services of village clinics.
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Objective:To understand the satisfaction of villagers on the service of village clinics,in order to improve the service ability of village clinics.Methods:Choosing M County of Beijing as the research site,we chose five towns and chose 10 villages in each town as the studysites.In the extraction 50 villages,about 5 villagers from each village were selected to conducts questionnaire survey.Results:Of the villagers surveyed,the average age was (55.99 ± 11.71)years old.A total of 75.0% of the villagers chose to seek medical care in village clinics when they had common diseases.The order of the number of people that villagers were satisfied with the village clinicsin all aspects from high to low was drug quality,basic medical care,public health,the type and quantity of drugs,medical equipment.Conclusion:It should give priority to the introduction of the village talent and weave tertiary health care network bottom tightly;pay attention to hardware equipment at basic level and tamp the service status of village clinics;give consideration to both the benefit and public welfare and improve health service ability.
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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.
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Objective To study the incentives created by both government service purchase mode and direct funding mode on village clinics.Methods Sampling on village clinics in 24 counties in Guizhou province,to learn their public health services and villagers' satisfaction under both modes.Results Except for the infectious disease report,health lectures and health records,values of most public health service indexes of the government purchase services group are better than those of the direct investment one (P<0.05).Villagers' satisfaction scores for facilities and service attitude showed no significant difference between the two modes,but the purchase services mode was better than direct funding one in other dimensions and comprehensive scores (P< 0.05).Conclusion Government purchase of health services has a great potential to improve the service efficiency of village clinics.It is,however,imperative to further break the monopoly,identify reasonable purchasing projects and approaches,and construct scientific supervision mechanisms to achieve incentive-compatible effects.
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We investigated the common diseases in patients from village clinics and compared them to those of the general population in rural areas of Jiangsu Province.We found that the treatment rates of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus were quite low.Village clinics should play a more active role in health record management,healthcare education,and management of chronic diseases for the farmers.
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Objective Probing into the primary healthcare capabilities of healthcare clinics in the four provinces in China's west,in order to recommend the government in making relevant policies.Results It is found that among those village doctOrs under 45 years of age,76.0%have senior high school diploma/secondary technical school education,89.6%have rural doctor certificates;those above 45 years old,59.5%have middle school education,96.9%have rural doctor certificates,and 1.6%have licensed assistant doctor certificates.x2check is statistically significant,as the village doctors born in different eras have different composition of education and different percentage of qualification certificates.44.44% of the village clinics have less than three rooms,and 41.11%occupy less than 40 square meters.Only 19.44%of the clinics receive funding for their medieal facilities from higher authorities.Conclusion It is imperative to enhance resources input tO the staff and facilities of village clinics in the west,to cater to the primary healthcare needs of the local people.