A spatial feature analysis of primary health care utilization in a large city in China and its implications for family doctor contract service policy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family doctor contract policy is now run by the State Council as an important move to promote the hierarchical medical system. Whether the family doctor contract policy achieves the initial government's goal should be measured further from the perspective of patient visits between hospitals and community health centers, which are regarded as grass medical agencies.

Methods

The spatial feature measurement method is applied with ArcGIS 10.2 software to analyze the spatial aggregation effect of patient visits to hospitals or community health centers among 20 districts of one large city in China and analyze the family doctor contract policy published in those areas to compare the influence of visit tendencies.

Results

From year 2016-2020, visits to hospitals we

SUBMITTER: Rao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10863294 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature