A review on drug circulation policy in China: Based on stakeholder game theory / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

The pharmaceutical circulation policy reform is the key link of the three medical linkage reform with a view of deepening medical reform.The policy formulation and implementation will inevitably lead to interest redistribution.Therefore, it is an effective means to comprehensively understand the unexpected results of the reform and the scientific decision-making of the policy direction, while ensuring the smooth progress of the reform.Based on the research literature presented on pharmaceutical circulation reform and policies since the new medical reform, this paper revealed the prevailing problems and limitations of the existing researches, demonstrated that policy evaluation based on the scientific theory framework is a powerful tool to judge whether the reform goals are achieved.With the introduction of the stakeholder theory and the game theory in pharmaceutical circulation policy evaluation, the complex influence factors can be quantified under scientific theoretical framework, so that the causal mechanism of the policy effect can be learnt, which can help to have a clearer interpretation of the pharmaceutical circulation reform policy, and to provide a scientific and reasonable reference for future policy direction.