Health workforce equity in urban community health service of China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To reveal the equity of health workforce distribution in urban community health service (CHS), and to provide evidence for further development of community health service in China.

Methods

A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in China from September to December 2011. In the study, 190 CHS centers were selected from 10 provinces of China via stratified multistage cluster sampling. Human resources profiles and basic characteristics of each CHS centers were collected. Lorenz curves and Gini Coefficient were used to measure the inequality in the distribution of health workforce in community health service centers by population size and geographical area. Wilcoxon rank test for paired samples was used to analyze the differences in equity between diffe

SUBMITTER: Chen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4281229 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature