Multi-ownership of community health services and the transferred govrenment leadership in China / 中国卫生政策研究
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
;
(12): 34-40, 2016.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-497306
ABSTRACT
Objective:
About half of Community Health Services ( CHS) in China are not government-owned, forming a multi-ownership situation of CHS .This study aims to examine the effect of “multi-ownership policy” on the development of CHS and put forward suggestions for improving the governance of CHS .Methods:
We applied maxi-mum variation sampling to select health workers of different CHS specialties and administrators from local health bu -reaus in District T of Shaanxi province and District X of Shandong province .Inductive thematic analysis was utilized to interpret the development and ramification of multi-ownership policy , and then to formulate substantive theory .Re-sultsThe adoption of multi-ownership in two districts was an adaptive strategy based on the limited public finance , institutional restriction of government , and diversity of health resources .This policy promoted the establishment of CHS network , and meanwhile the government's leadership of CHS development was transferred to multiple owners of CHS, which caused the lack of CHS autonomy , fragmented regulation power and deviated development of CHS .Con-clusionsThe key problem of multi-ownership situation in CHS development is the problematic partition of governance power.In order to redeem the leadership of CHS development to the local government , it is necessary to strengthen service regulation while to decentralize the facility management power to CHS , to adjust service price ,and to deepen medical insurance coverage of CHS to enhance autonomy of CHS .
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
Year:
2016
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Article
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