Practice in and reflection on rural community health care in our district

Combining urban community health care with primary health care in rural areas, our district started experimental work in rural community health care in 6 towns on the outskirts of Nanjing. The work includes the following aspects. ①Community health care was used to bridge the region with other regions and the health trade with other trades, health resources were rationally allocated and the focus of health care was shifted to the community. ②The path of prevention combined with treatment was taken, with priority given to prevention. Health services integrating medical treatment, prevention, healthcare, convalescence, health education and technical guidance in family planning were conducted. ③Township health stations shifted their focus from disease to health and took the path of developing community health care in place of that of developing minor specialties. ④Cooperative medical insurance contracts and health insurance contracts were combined into one. Our experience has led to the following conclusions. ①Conduction of rural community health care at present goes along with the trend of the second health revolution. ②Development of rural community health care is in dire need of government solicitude and social support. ③Quite a number of general medical practitioners with the mastery of appropriate techniques need to be cultivated for the development of rural community health care.