Assessment of essential public health services in China based on WHO′s comprehensive evaluation model / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand the current equalization in essential public health services in China, and to provide recommendations for health resource allocation and public health policy making.@*Methods@#WHO′s comprehensive evaluation model, and the Rank Sum Ratio (RSR) method were used to analyze, rank and categorize essential public health services.@*Results@#Thirty-one provinces (cities, autonomous regions) in China were grouped into five categories, namely, relatively balanced area, low input area, resource shortage area, over utilization area and resource waste area.@*Conclusions@#The equalization of essential public health services in China is gradually being realized, but there are still setbacks such as mismatch between health needs and resource input, waste and over-utilization of resources. To correct these problems, relevant recommendations on health policy making for different areas were given.