Whether high government subsidies reduce the healthcare provision of township healthcare centers in rural China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China's government launched a large-scale healthcare reform from 2009. One of the main targets of this round reform was to improve the primary health care system. Major reforms for primary healthcare institutions include increasing government investment. However, there are insufficient empirical studies based on large sample to catch long-term effect of increased government subsidy and lack of sufficient incentives on township healthcare centers (THCs), therefore, this study aims to provide additional empirical evidence on the concern by conducting an empirical analysis of THCs in Shaanxi province in China.

Methods

We collected nine years (2009 to 2017) data of THCs from the Health Finance Annual Report System (HFARS) that was acquired from the Health Commission o

SUBMITTER: Shen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8557613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature