An evaluation study on the level of regional public health development in Zhejiang Province / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the level of regional public health development in Zhejiang Province,and to learn the development problems in order to provide suggestions for developing public health strategies.Methods The index system established for evaluation included 30 indexes of public health in 4 aspects,namely the health level of residents,the allocation of public health resource,the level of public health service and public health security.Based on the data in 2010,the comprehensive development index was calculated to evaluate the level and speed of public health development. Results The comprehensive development index of Zhejiang Province was 127. 31 in 2012,which was 9. 97 higher than thatof2011.Thespeedofdevelopmentwas108.50%,andthelevelofpublichealthdevelopmentinZhejiangProvincehas increased continuously.Among 1 1 cities,the highest and lowest comprehensive development index of public health development was 146. 35 and 101. 55 respectively.The fastest and slowest speed of development was 122. 76% and 104. 95% respectively.Conclusion The public health in Zhejiang Province kept the good momentum of development,but the unbalanced development still existed among different regions.