Public Health Service Capacity of Chongqing:A Human Resources Perspective

Objective To investigate the status quo of public health service capacity of Chongqing.Methods A self-made questionnaire was used to carry out surveys in Health Bureaus,Financial Bureaus,public health organizations,and grass-root health organizations in 4 districts of Chongqing.We interviewed the directors and managers in these organizations and conducted a literature review.Results Public health personnel were insufficient.They accounted for 20.35%,20.61%,and 11.03% of the total medical staff in maternal and child health centers,health inspection agencies,and psychiatric hospitals,respectively.Most of the public health personnel were junior college or technical secondary school graduates without or with only junior professional titles.Only 7.16% of the public health personnel held a medical practitioner′s license.In grass-root health organizations,there was only 0.84 public health personnel in 10 000 people,and public health personnel accounted for 7.07% of the health technical staff.Conclusion The quantity and quality of public health personnel in Chongqing are insufficient to accomplish the national public health service tasks.How to attract and retain high-quality public health personnel is the problem needs to be solved.