Theory,Empirical Study and Recommendations for the Integrated Development of Urban and Rural Health Care

Under the background of universal health care,the urban and rural health care systemshave shown the institutional characters of inserting in the dual economic social structures.Basedon the urban and rural residents'behavior choices of economical joint and social capital,the urbanand rural health care systems need to be integrated on fund raising,management,payment,serviceand environment.Based on regression analysis on the survey data of Dongguan,Taicang,Chengdu and Xi'an,it is found that the level of economic development is the important premise torealize the integration of urban and rural health care,and balanced benefit of different groups isthe important guarantee.Therefore,the cores of urban and rural health care integration are thejustice financing and balanced benefit: The direction of the integrating development is to realizethe convergence step-by-step,and achieve the aim of constructing the national health care system.The corresponding policies can be deployed as follows: institutional framework,financingmechanism,integrating gradation,administrative resources,management system,transferring andcontinuous procedures and so on.