Research progress of cost estimation of community basic public health service in China / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

Objective:To summarize the cost of basic community public health service in Chinese community for the period 2009 to 2016 and to provide suggestions for the formulation of the compensatory policy and work in-struction in each region.Methods: The literature search conducted on Chinese literature database(including CNKI, VIP, Wan Fang) from the period of 2009 to 2016.The literature was analyzed with the help of NoteExpress managing Literatures,and the relevant papers and their references were comparatively analyzed by using Microsoft excel 2007. Results:There were a total of 817 relevant articles,of which,48 were included in this study and 19 with detailed re-search results.For the 48 articles,41.7% adopted full costing method and 20.8% used activity-based costing meth-od,54.2% using six-item screener. More research of cost estimation applied to current evaluation of public health service in community,the results of cost estimation showed that the cost of basic community public health service per capita was significantly different among the studies in the period of 2009to2011 (20.9 RMB to 95 RMB).The man-power cost was the main cost of basic community public health service(between 56.59% and 74.9%).Conclusions:Further exploration and research on the cost estimation of national basic community public health service in China re-quires to be performed,and the cost estimation methods are supposed to improve in practice.