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July 14, 2017International Journal for Equity in HealthOpen Access

Evaluation on equality and efficiency of health resources allocation and health services utilization in China

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JSJian SunHLHongye Luo

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Cross-sectional evaluation finds geographic disparities and widespread inefficiency in health resource distribution across Chinese provinces, highlighting the need to optimize regional investments.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the equality and efficiency of health resources allocation and health services utilization across China.
  • Extracted demographic, economic, geographic, and health resource and service data from the China Statistical Yearbook and China Health Statistics Yearbook from 2012 to 2016.
  • Measured equality in health resource allocation using the Gini coefficient and equality in service utilization using the concentration index.
  • Evaluated resource allocation efficiency across provinces using data envelopment analysis (DEA).
  • Between 2011 and 2015, the Gini coefficients for health resources by population ranged from 0.0644 to 0.1879, compared to 0.6136 to 0.6568 when evaluated by geographic area.
  • Concentration index values measuring equality in health services utilization ranged from -0.0392 to 0.2110.
  • In 2015, only 10 provinces (32.26%) were relatively efficient in resource allocation, whereas 7 (22.58%) were weakly efficient and 14 (45.16%) were inefficient.

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Sun et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7b45f577336a1bae032120https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0614-y
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