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New vision sought for community health care
By Hu Yan (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-18 09:56
Improvement in community health care and the establishment of a universal
health care system are key to revamping the country's troubled system,
experts said over the weekend.
More than 300 senior officials, researchers and representatives from
different sectors of the nation's health care industry gathered at
Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School to discuss "New
Horizons for China's Medical Reform."
Although the government has continued to pump in cash into the health
care system expenditure reached 66 billion yuan (US$8.25 billion) in
2003, double the spending in 1998 a common public complaint is that
"seeing a doctor is difficult and expensive."
Authorities last year concluded that reform of the health care system
over the past two decades was "basically unsuccessful," and urged a new
template.
Regarding the future health service model, many speakers at the forum
stressed that accessibility to health services and efficiency are the key
issues.
Shi Guang, a professor at the China Health Economics Institute of the
Ministry of Health, said the future health system should be composed of a
primary health care system for public health and basic medical services,
and secondary and tertiary medical institutes mainly for emergency and
critical care.
Experts said the government should channel annual health care outlays
more than 5 per cent of the GDP on public health services and
government-run hospitals, instead of covering most medical institutes
which can rely more on social support and investment.
On average, the subsidy from the government accounts for less than 8 per
cent of public hospitals' revenue. So they rely on income from drugs and
diagnostics, which results in doctors often over-prescribing drugs and
expensive medical tests.
Dr Henk Bekedam, the WHO's China representative, advised the nation to
follow the European model of family doctors serving as gatekeepers of
residents' health in the community health care system.
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