Estimating the costs of the national basic public health services in Zhuhai, China, through activity-based costing: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our research aims to estimate the per capita cost of 13 items in the basic public health service (BPHS) project in Zhuhai, China, and provide an economical basis for the improvement of the cost compensation mechanism used by the government.

Design

This research is a cross-sectional study.

Setting

A total of 19 primary healthcare facilities (PHFs) in Zhuhai, China, are involved in this research.

Participants

A total of 152 participants (114 personnel engaged in BPHS, 19 financial personnel and 19 PHF heads) were included in this study, which was conducted from May 2017 to July 2017.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

We used the activity-based costing model to calculate the cost of providing BPHS in Zhuhai. An analytical hierarchy process wa

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609140 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature