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The Urban-Rural Gap in Medical Resource Allocation of Public Medical Institutions in Yunnan Province

  

  • Received:2017-11-14 Revised:2018-01-08 Online:2018-05-15 Published:2018-05-15

Abstract: In recent years, the government has been making great efforts to achieve the goal of equalization of public services. The gap between public services in the inter-regional and urban and rural areas has been significantly improved, but public services in the people's livelihood area have been affected by factors such as history, location, and financial resources. There is still a large gap,especially in the border areas between rural and urban areas. Using the financial expenditures and output data of health care in Yunnan province to comprehensively measure the gap between urban and rural health care resources allocated by public medical institutions
across the province, a co-integration analysis was conducted on both of them to find that there was a long-term stable relationship between the two. On the basis of this, an empirical analysis was made of the financial expenditures, urbanization, and residents' income levels that affected the distribution of resources for public medical institutions across the province, and the financial equalization expenditure, level of urbanization, and income level of rural residents were obtained. The improvement will help narrow the urbanrural gap in the allocation of resources for public medical institutions in Yunnan Province.  

Key words: public medical institutions, medical resource allocation, equalization of medical and health public services, Yunnan Province