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

Objective To estimate the annual change of some service items in different regions′ community health service centers from 2000 to 2002.Methods A questionnaire covered 200 community health service centers from eleven provinces (including municipalities and Direct-controlled Municipalities) was carried out.Results The workloads of five service items,including outpatient person-time,family sickbed person-time,family health record,person-time of visiting patients at home and person-time of those leaving hospital,were gradually increasing yearly from 2000 to 2002.As a whole,it developed fast in the western and middle areas rather than the eastern area.Conclusion The regional government should set a reasonable workload standard according to the regions′ developing level and strengthen the managing quality as well as work efficiency in order to make the community health service progress successfully.