Study on health policy instrument options for sinking high-quality medical resources from cities to primary care / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study and identify factors and evaluation criteria for optional health policy instruments for policy making reference.Methods A field survey was made to the10,000 primary care doctors to rural households campaign in Jining city,covering 453 doctors sent to villages,294 village doctors,and 572 rural residents,with the data obtained subject to descriptive analysis.Results In terms of equity of the campaign,97.8％ of the rural residents have entered into agreements,and 1.715 million of free visits have been provided by family doctors; in terms of economics,most of the superior doctors,rural doctors and rural residents believed that the policy could encourage high quality resources to sink to rural areas,and enhance the competence of public health services by rural doctors.In terms of the adaptability,60.4 ％ of the superior doctors and 92.7％ of the rural doctors hold that they are competent for health care role,but 51.8％ of the superior doctors were found not used to the current working mode.In terms of the enforceability,main complaints of superior doctors and rural doctors were excessive workload,overlong working hours,insufficient medical equipments,and reduced institutional revenue In terms of acceptability,90.4％ of the rural residents are supportive Conclusion The promotion of such a policy calls for a combination of compulsory,voluntary and mixed policy instruments in sinking the resources,with appropriate selection and optimization of such instruments,to ensure outcomes of the policy.