Regional differences in health resource allocation: a longitudinal study in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse regional differences in health resource allocation in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.

Design

A longitudinal analysis that collected data on health resource allocation from 2017 to 2021.

Setting

The number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, registered nurses and financial allocations per 1000 population in the 42 regions of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle were used for the analysis.

Methods

The entropy weight technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) method and the rank sum ratio (RSR) method were used to evaluate the health resource allocation.

Results

The number of licensed (assistant) physicians per 1000 population in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle (3.01) w

SUBMITTER: Zhou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10961522 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature