The Evolving Hospital Market in China After the 2009 Healthcare Reform.

ABSTRACT: Since the initiation of national healthcare reform in 2009, China's hospital market has witnessed significant change. To provide a brief description about its evolving process, China Health Statistical Yearbook data and Sichuan administrative data from 2009 to 2017 were used in this article. An overall upward trend of hospital delivery capacity was found in this study, which increased from 3.12 million beds and 1.09 million doctors in 2009 to 6.12 million and 1.80 million in 2017, respectively, while the primary healthcare institutions presented fairly slow development pace. Growing proportion of medical resources and patients gathered in hospitals, especially tertiary hospitals. While private hospitals demonstrated an increasingly important role in hospital market with growing share of ca

SUBMITTER: Jiang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607735 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature