Development of rehabilitation medical resources in Jiangsu during Thirteenth Five-year Plan / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Objective To investigate the development of rehabilitation medical resources in Jiangsu during Thirteenth Five-year Plan.Methods The electronic questionnaire was issued uniformly to the medical and health institutions in 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu Province through the Health Commission system, to survey the rehabilitation medical resources data from 2015 to 2019.Results Compared with those in 2015, the secondary and above general hospitals with rehabilitation medicine departments increased 3.42 percentage points and community-level medical and healthcare institutions providing rehabilitation medical services increased 5.67 percentage points at the end of 2019; while, the authorized beds increased 127 and actual beds increased 142 in the rehabilitation department per million population; the early rehabilitation intervention increased 4 326 person-times per million population; there were 91 more rehabilitation professionals per million population, including 25 rehabilitation physicians, 31 rehabilitation therapists, 29 rehabilitation nurses and six other rehabilitation practitioners; the practitioners with associate senior titles and above increased 1.65 percentage points, and those with master-degree or above increased 1.27 percentage points.Conclusion The allocation of various rehabilitation resources has been improved in Jiangsu province during Thirteenth Five-year Plan.