ABSTRACT
As the most basic service agency of a city’s primary medical and health service in
china, community health service institutions undertake the service content which relates
to the task of the nation’s basic health and Epidemic Prevention. The importance of
Community health service institutions not only attract widespread attention of the whole
society, but also has become one of the key links and basic nodes of the current medical
system reform. And it’s also the most effective solution to relieve the problem of
inadequate and overly expensive medical services. Development of community health
services is an important part of the Government to fulfill the functions of the
government, the government must be in a dominant position, the government finances
especially need to become the main provider channels of funding for community health
services running.
Different regions have initially established the city community health service
system since Central Government called for the positive development of community
health service in 1997. However, the development of them is quite unbalanced because
of the differences in social and economic development and the unevenness of
investment in community health service institutions in different regions. Especially after
the implementation of a series of convenience medical reform policies, with the rising
price level and the inadequate government financial compensation mechanisms as well
as the unreasonable compensation mode, the phenomenon of unbalanced payments and
excess of expenditure and income has been more and more serious. As a result, the
operation of community health service institutions has been caught into an awkward
position.
One of the important conditions for stable development of community health
service institutions is the government’s reasonable compensation method, based on the
existing method of compensation has seriously hampered the development of
community health service institutions, urgently need to be improved. Firstly, through the
theoretical analysis to the Community Health Services Compensation, proposing the
following contents to build theoretical basis of study and analysis, including: adhering
to government-led, allocation of health resources should focus on the efficiency and
equity. Secondly, the author introduces the different compensation modes of community
health service institutions in Britain, the USA, Australia, Canada, Sweden, etc. and
analyzed their significance of reference and deficiency to China. The study also
introduces and analyzes the present situation and the mainly existing question of
compensation mechanisms of community health service institutions in Pudong New
Area, Shanghai. Finally, in order to reverse the situation of general loss for community
health services, from the government point of view, learning from foreign experience in
compensation, stable compensation funds and establishing the scientifical compensation
ways should be proposed to improve the compensation ways of community health
service institutions, thus provide references of compensation ways for community
health service institutions where economic is developed but the urban-rural differences
are significant, and to promote the healthy, orderly, steady development of community