汕头城乡基本公共服务均等化评价研究

Evaluation of Shantou Urban and Rural Basic Public Service Equalization

在经济社会全面转型的背景下,着力推进基本公共服务均等化是建设服务型政府的重要体现。以汕头城乡基本公共服务为研究对象,分析了汕头教育、医疗卫生和社会保障公共服务供给的发展状况,并通过均等化指数的测算对三项公共服务的均等化进行评估。研究发现,汕头教育和社会保障公共服务均等化水平良好,而医疗卫生服务均等化水平较差。研究结果表明,人口的高度集中带来了区域基本公共服务均等化的压力;同时,政府对基本公共服务各领域并未同等重视,导致特定领域均等化水平滞后。因此,加大整体投入,提升人均公共服务财政支出,强化人口集中区域公共服务供给等政策措施,才能有效推进城乡基本公共服务均等化的长远发展。

The promotion of basic public service equalization stands for the construction of service-oriented government in the context of socioeconomic transition. This paper focuses on the urban and rural basic public services of Shantou, analyzes its development in education, health care and social insurance and estimates the equalization of the three through calculating basic public service equalization index. Research shows that equalization in education and social insurance is good, but that in health care service is not optimistic. It concludes that the high concentration of population curbs the equalization and the unequal attention government pays to different fields of public service affects the result of equalization. Therefore,the expansion of investment and public budget for public service in populous areas could effectively help the equalization of urban and rural basic public service in Shantou.