Evaluation index system for equalization of basic public health services / 中南大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To establish the evaluation index system for equalization of basic public health services and to test its value in practice.@*METHODS@#We developed the index system through expert scored evaluation and then chose a city in Hunan for the research object. The sources of data and the methods of collection for each indicator were identified. The reliability and validity of index system was tested. The methods of AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution) were applied to comprehensively evaluate the public health services among nine counties in the city.@*RESULTS@#The Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which described reliability test result on evaluation index system for equalization of basic public health services, was 0.750. The cumulative contribution rate reached 89.32% after validity test with extraction of 5 common factors through factor-analysis. The sorting results from AHP or TOPSIS method are very close except two districts.@*CONCLUSION@#Evaluation index system for equalization of basic public health services established in this study is in good validity and reliability, which can be objectively applied to analyze the current status of basic public health services.