Present Situation of Chinese Community Health Service-An Analysis of the Annual Change of Service Quantity of Some Service Items in Community Health Service Stations of Eastern,Middle and Western Areas

Objective To estimate the service quantity of some service items in community health service stations of eastern,middle and western areas.Methods A questionnaire covering 508-community health service stations from eleven provinces,autonomous regions,or municipalities was carried out.Results Five items' workloads of community health service in the three areas,including outpatient person-time,family sickbed person-time,family health record,person-time of visiting patients at home and person-time of leaving hospital were gradually increasing yearly.As a whole,the total number of service was developed fastest in middle China.Compared to this phenomenon,the yearly service quantity progress of regional community health was slow,with some service items having increased negatively in some regions of eastern and western China.ConclusionCommunity health service stations should increase the number of family sickbeds,family health records and person-time of visiting patient at home,extend these high quality service items and promote the development of whole community health service.