Status quo of community health service in Guangzhou City

Objective To know about the status quo of Community Health Service(CHS) in Guangzhou city and to provide development strategies.Methods Questionnaires survey was taken in investigating all the community health service centers in Guangzhou city.Results 123 community health service centers were investigated.The mean building areas of 105 community health service centers(18 of the 123 centers not providing the data of housing)was 1907 square meters,and 71 centers' house building area was less than 2000 square meters.For 123 centers,the proportion of the staff graduating from colleges and technical secondary schools were 32.7%,40.0% respectively,and about 27.3% of them had obtained bacholar or master degree,and the proportion of staff with senior,medium,junior and no professional title was 5.1%,19.0%,58.9% and 17.0% respectively.The proportion of received clinical treatment service and public health service in total number serviced by 123 centers was 95.5%,4.5%.Conclusion The basic network of CHS in Guangzhou City had been set up,whose service function gradually improved,but the following problems still existed: low proportion of standardized business real-estate,low proportion of higher education staff,low-level professional titles,and low public health service visits.