Research on equity of medical resource allocation in Yangtze River Economic Belt under healthy China strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to assess the fairness of medical resource allocation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, based on the Healthy China strategy. It aimed to identify the issues with resource allocation fairness and provide optimization suggestions.

Methods

To assess the allocation fairness from a geographical population perspective, the study used the Health Resource Concentration and Entropy Weight TOPSIS methods. Additionally, the study analyzed the allocation fairness from an economic level angle, using the Concentration Curve and Concentration Index.

Results

The study found that the downstream area had higher resource allocation fairness than the midstream and upstream areas. The middle reaches had more resources than the upper and lower reaches, based on

SUBMITTER: Ya-Qing L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332165 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature