Affiliation:
1. School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
2. School of Public Health, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou 311399, China
Abstract
Medical resource allocation is an increasingly crucial issue. It is vital to understand residents’ (people living in the local area) evaluation of it. This study explores residents’ evaluation of medical resource allocation and its determinants with the dimensions of medical resource adequacy, balance, publicness, and accessibility. We used data from the China General Social Survey (CGSS). Binary logistic regression models were constructed from the four dimensions separately, and we compared the differences among them. The study’s results showed that accessibility and publicness are the highest and lowest dimensions of residents’ evaluation, respectively. The high evaluation of social equity may be a positive contributor to a higher evaluation of publicness and accessibility. The central region residents had the lowest evaluation of adequacy (OR = 0.697, p = 0.010) and balance (OR = 0.642, p = 0.008). To sum up, perceived social equity, social trust, and social class are crucial factors. Based on the results, the government should strengthen the supervision of the medical market, increase financial support for the health field in the central region, and establish a multi-level medical security system that may help optimize the allocation.
Funder
Soft Science Research Program of Zhejiang Province
Medical and Health Technology Plan Project of Zhejiang Province
General Project of the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province
Subject
Health Information Management,Health Informatics,Health Policy,Leadership and Management
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