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Objective@#To explore the formation mechanism of the weakening of village clinic′s medical service capacity in the context of new medical reform.@*Methods@#Purposive sampling method was used to enroll 38 rural doctors and managers of rural health centers and health offices in the interview from October 2015 to November 2015. And grounded theory was adopted to analyze reasons and their mechanism of the weakening of village clinic′ s medical service capacity.@*Results@#29 first-grade categories and 7 second-grade categories were worked out in text encoding. With the implementation of the ongoing healthcare reform, support from financial, policy and technology increased significantly, but due to the synthetic action of unexpected negative effects of the reform, superposition and accumulation of disturbance and ineffective support, village clinic′ s medical service capacity began to weaken.@*Conclusions@#The weakened village clinic′ s medical service capacity is a result of the synthetic action of 3 reasons. The persistence of this status will intensify the vulnerability of rural health service system and be bad for the implementation of hierarchical medical policy and the strategy of rural vitalization. Measures should be taken to optimization the essential medicine system, establish a comprehensive assessment mechanism for basic medical service and basic public health service of village clinic, strength the strategic purchasing of medical insurance, improve the financial compensation mechanism, and complete training system of village doctors, aims to promoting sustainable development of village clinic.
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Objective@#To explore the current status of village doctors′ vulnerability in Shandong province in the context of ongoing healthcare reform.@*Methods@#A cross-section study was conducted from October 2015 to November 2015 based on a self-designed questionnaire for village doctors. The questionnaire included 6 parts: fundamental state, disturbance from surroundings, disturbance from job, emotional support, instrumental support and self-ability of village doctors. Mean and standard deviation were adopted to describe the level of disturbance and support. Quadrant analysis was adopted to analyze village doctors′ vulnerability. The set pair analysis was adopted to calculate the vulnerability index and sample cluster analysis was adopted to classify village doctors based on the vulnerability index.@*Results@#The total disturbance score was 3.39±0.46, and contribution from professional risk was the biggest(19.95%). The self-ability score was 3.33±0.40, and contribution from financial support was the smallest(4.09%). According to the set pair analysis, village doctors′ vulnerability total score was 0.49±0.06, ranging in a medium category. According to the sample cluster analysis, 27.2%(277/1 018)of the village doctors stayed at the upper category, as 30.3%(309/1 018) was defined as a medium category. According to the quadrant analysis, 35.5%(361/1 018)of the village doctors were found as in crisis vulnerability.@*Conclusions@#In general, village doctors′ vulnerability stays in the medium category. They have to fight against high disturbance from surroundings, with more emotional support and less financial support expected.
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Objective@#To define the connotation of village doctors′ vulnerability.@*Methods@#On the basis of document analysis, Delphic method was used to consult and argument the connotation of village doctors′ vulnerability from October 2015 to November 2015.@*Results@#Twenty and 16 specialists were consulted in two rounds of the consulting. According to these consultations, the acceptance rate of the specialists for the seven consulting units increased from 74.29% to 93.16%.@*Conclusions@#The vulnerability of village doctors was identified, as a status in which their self-ability and support against their exterior environment could not to cope with the disturbances they faced, while the vulnerability was co-determined by disturbance and response ability of village doctors.
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Policy circumstance plays a pivotal role in transformation of barefoot doctor to village doctor.The resources support fromregime and economic organizationmanagement system, the workpoint system for income from collective economy and politics culture of serving people under the policy circumstances of the People′s Com-mune, lay a firm foundation for rise and development of barefoot doctors.However, the village self-governance re-gime began with Household Contract Responsibility System changed all elements above and ultimately prompt trans-formation from barefoot doctor to village doctor.
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Objective:To study the status quo of National Essential Medicine System ( NEMS) in village clinics of a province in western China. Methods:Individual in-depth interview was carried out with village doctors and their managers of a province in western China, to understand the subsidies of zero-markup rate, compensations for general medical fees, and status quo of NEMS assessment mechanism and its impacts on prescribing behavior of village doc-tors. Results:In the surveyed area, the intervention of NEMS has not achieved the desired objectives: the prescri-bing behavior of village doctors has not changed significantly;general medical fee system has failed to achieve reason-able compensations;and the assessment mechanism done by village doctor managers has been a mere formality. Con-clusions and Suggestions:To ensure the feasibility, effectiveness and sustainability of the intervention, the area poli-cymakers should take into full consideration the special nature of village doctors.