The objective of this study was to examine the inpatient bed (IB) allocation equity and utilization in Chinese city commtmity health service centers (CHSCs). The data were derived from the Baseline Survey of Natio...The objective of this study was to examine the inpatient bed (IB) allocation equity and utilization in Chinese city commtmity health service centers (CHSCs). The data were derived from the Baseline Survey of National City Community Health Service System Building Project, which was conducted in 1917 CHSCs in 28 cities in 2007. The IB allocation was analyzed in terms oflB alloca- tion quantity and distribution equity, and the IB utilization was analyzed by the IB utilization rate and average length of stay of the CHSC inpatients. The results showed that 49.3% of the CHSCs were equipped with IB; averagely, there were 45 IBs per CHSC, 0.94 IBs per 1000 people, and 0.38 nurses and 0.57 doctors per IB; the IB Gini coefficient was 0.32; the IB utilization rate was 40.06%; and the average length of stay of inpatients was 12.24 days. The conclusions were that IB allocation among the population was equitable, but the number of nurse per IB was not up to the national standard; and the CHSC IB utilization was low as a whole, thus inpatient service was not the main health service for Chinese CHSCs.展开更多
In China, the implementation of community health service shows that the prevention is an essential and important part of our national health system and is helpful to decrease the medical expenditure gradually. Accord...In China, the implementation of community health service shows that the prevention is an essential and important part of our national health system and is helpful to decrease the medical expenditure gradually. According to the data from Health Statistic Information Center of Ministry of Health in China, we calculated that the total health expenditure of China would be decreased 8000.0 million yuan only in 2001, among which, 1188.3 million, 1953.9 million and 4833.0 million yuan were respectively saved for the government budget, the society and resident if implementing the policy of community health service powerfully. And every outpatient can save 15.46 yuan per time. By the quantitative analysis on the economic contribution of community health service, it can be proved that a great economic benefit could be gotten from the implementation of community health service.展开更多
This article proposes a framework, called BP-M* which includes: 1) a methodology to analyze, engineer, restructure and implement business processes, and 2) a process model that extends the process diagram with the spe...This article proposes a framework, called BP-M* which includes: 1) a methodology to analyze, engineer, restructure and implement business processes, and 2) a process model that extends the process diagram with the specification of resources that execute the process activities, allocation policies, schedules, times of activities, management of queues in input to the activities and workloads so that the same model can be simulated by a discrete event simulator. The BP-M* framework has been applied to a real case study, a public Contact Center which provides different typologies of answers to users’ requests. The simulation allows to study different system operating scenarios (“What-If” analysis) providing useful information for analysts to evaluate restructuring actions.展开更多
This study explores the perceptions of a small group of nurses working at a newly established 24-hour community-based service enter (SC) for users with psychiatric disability using a qualitative approach. Since the me...This study explores the perceptions of a small group of nurses working at a newly established 24-hour community-based service enter (SC) for users with psychiatric disability using a qualitative approach. Since the mental health reform in Sweden in 1995 where the communities (in Sweden called municipalities) were given the responsibility to establish service and support to people with severe psychiatric disabilities, they have struggled in finding suitable forms of these kinds of areas. In 2010, this led to the creation and development of a new center aiming to provide services and support based on the expressed needs of people with physchiatric disability in a community located in southern Sweden. During 2011, a total of three group interviews were performed to capture the employed nurses’ perceptions of this newly established SC. The interview texts were analyzed by way of qualitative content analysis. A first reading of the interview texts revealed that the nurses’ perceptions of the service center were unwaveringly positive but that their beliefs about who the specific target group were differed. The main finding was summarized by the theme: Making a difference—on an individual, professional, and organizational level. The sub themes were: 24-hour availability, unclear assignment, and preventing mental illness. The findings indicate a need for a community round-the-clock service center in this Swedish community and a more clear definition of the target group.展开更多
This study illuminates nine psychiatric disabled persons’ lived experience of a newly established community-based service center open around the clock. This new 24-hour support center (SC) was established in 2011 in ...This study illuminates nine psychiatric disabled persons’ lived experience of a newly established community-based service center open around the clock. This new 24-hour support center (SC) was established in 2011 in a Swedish community to better match and facilitate the disabled persons’ needs. In order to illuminate the disabled person’s experiences individual interview was performed. A phenomenological-hermeneutical method inspired by Paul Ricoeur was used to interpret the texts. After a naive reading, a structural analysis revealed two themes: 1), becoming aware of myself as a person, and 2) having a lifeline and belongingness. The comprehensive understanding was interpreted as meaning “Making me feel almost like an ordinary person”, which incorporated the person’s past with their present together with a direction for the future and hope for a more fulfilling life.展开更多
Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves ...Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves a number of outpatient registration items and a vast workload.The routine manual operation is inefficient and it is not convenient to make effective statistical analysis of the outpatient data to identify the risk factors closely related to diseases.Therefore,it is imperative to process the outpatient information of patients with respiratory diseases effectively and efficiently in a unified manner by means of computer technology.Methods:The design and realization of the Community Health Service-oriented computerassisted Information System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Diseases(CHS-DTRD)was completed as part of the community intervention study on bronchial asthma that was carried out jointly by the Nanjing First Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University and the Hospital of Nanjing University of Science&Technology,and based on 2 years of experience and the needs of an overall analysis.Results:The computer-assisted information system for diagnosis and treatment was developed using Java Server Page(JSP)technology and introducing the advanced Asynchronous JavaScript XML(AJAX)technique and MS-SQL Server was used in the background database.CHS-DTRD was composed of eight functional modules(outpatient data maintenance,outpatient appointment,intelligent analysis for disease risk factors,query and statistics,data dictionary maintenance,database manipulation,access control,and system configuration).CHS-DTRD featured a friendly interface,convenient operation,and stability and reliability.Conclusion:Community health-oriented diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases is simple,programmable,and intuitive,thus the workload of physicians is significantly reduced and the work efficiency is improved.This system facilitates an intelligent analysis of disease risk factors using data mining technology,and provides physicians with suggestions on intelligent analysis for diagnosis of disease and conclusion of disease causes.展开更多
Objective:We aimed to explore the efficiency of community health centers(CHCs)in China from 2013 to 2015,providing policy suggestions for optimizing the allocation of health resources.Methods:Data on the efficiency of...Objective:We aimed to explore the efficiency of community health centers(CHCs)in China from 2013 to 2015,providing policy suggestions for optimizing the allocation of health resources.Methods:Data on the efficiency of CHCs in 30 provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities in China's Mainland(except Tibet)from 2013 to 2015 were collected from China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2014,China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2015,and China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2016.Data envelopment analysis and Malmquist index analysis were performed to investigate the efficiency of sampled CHCs during this period at the national level and the regional level.The applied input indicators include the numbers of CHCs,community health workers,and beds,and the output indicators consist of the numbers of visits and inpatients,the occupancy rate of beds,and the average length of stay.Results:In 2015,the average annual overall technical efficiency,pure technical efficiency,and scale efficiency of CHCs in 30 regions at the national level were 0.715,0.705,and 0.972,respectively.Eight regions(Guangdong,Guizhou,Hainan,Ningxia,Qinghai,Shanghai,Zhejiang,and Chongqing,accounting for 26.7%of the total)had efficient CHCs with overall technical ef-ficiency of 1.000,and the other 22 regions had surpluses of 131 CHCs,5573 community health workers,and 2086 beds on average.In 2015,the average annual technical change index,pure technical efficiency change index,total factor productivity,technical efficiency change index,and scale efficiency change index of CHCs at the national level were 1.034,1.002,1.024,0.990,and 0.988,respectively.Compared with 2013,the former three increased by 3.4%,0.2%,and 2.4%,respectively,while the latter two decreased by 1.0%and 1.2%,respectively.Conclusion:On the whole,efficiency improvements of CHCs were achieved at the national level from 2013 to 2015,but with obvious interregional differences.In regions with inefficient CHCs identified by data envelopment analysis,there was a problem of coexistence of shortage and wastage of community health resources.In view of this,targeted measures should be taken to optimize the allocation of community health resources,and the management of CHCs should be strengthened to improve the efficiency of these institutions.展开更多
基金The Baseline Survey of "The National Urban Community Health Service System Building Project" was funded by Ministry Of Health of China
文摘The objective of this study was to examine the inpatient bed (IB) allocation equity and utilization in Chinese city commtmity health service centers (CHSCs). The data were derived from the Baseline Survey of National City Community Health Service System Building Project, which was conducted in 1917 CHSCs in 28 cities in 2007. The IB allocation was analyzed in terms oflB alloca- tion quantity and distribution equity, and the IB utilization was analyzed by the IB utilization rate and average length of stay of the CHSC inpatients. The results showed that 49.3% of the CHSCs were equipped with IB; averagely, there were 45 IBs per CHSC, 0.94 IBs per 1000 people, and 0.38 nurses and 0.57 doctors per IB; the IB Gini coefficient was 0.32; the IB utilization rate was 40.06%; and the average length of stay of inpatients was 12.24 days. The conclusions were that IB allocation among the population was equitable, but the number of nurse per IB was not up to the national standard; and the CHSC IB utilization was low as a whole, thus inpatient service was not the main health service for Chinese CHSCs.
文摘In China, the implementation of community health service shows that the prevention is an essential and important part of our national health system and is helpful to decrease the medical expenditure gradually. According to the data from Health Statistic Information Center of Ministry of Health in China, we calculated that the total health expenditure of China would be decreased 8000.0 million yuan only in 2001, among which, 1188.3 million, 1953.9 million and 4833.0 million yuan were respectively saved for the government budget, the society and resident if implementing the policy of community health service powerfully. And every outpatient can save 15.46 yuan per time. By the quantitative analysis on the economic contribution of community health service, it can be proved that a great economic benefit could be gotten from the implementation of community health service.
文摘This article proposes a framework, called BP-M* which includes: 1) a methodology to analyze, engineer, restructure and implement business processes, and 2) a process model that extends the process diagram with the specification of resources that execute the process activities, allocation policies, schedules, times of activities, management of queues in input to the activities and workloads so that the same model can be simulated by a discrete event simulator. The BP-M* framework has been applied to a real case study, a public Contact Center which provides different typologies of answers to users’ requests. The simulation allows to study different system operating scenarios (“What-If” analysis) providing useful information for analysts to evaluate restructuring actions.
文摘This study explores the perceptions of a small group of nurses working at a newly established 24-hour community-based service enter (SC) for users with psychiatric disability using a qualitative approach. Since the mental health reform in Sweden in 1995 where the communities (in Sweden called municipalities) were given the responsibility to establish service and support to people with severe psychiatric disabilities, they have struggled in finding suitable forms of these kinds of areas. In 2010, this led to the creation and development of a new center aiming to provide services and support based on the expressed needs of people with physchiatric disability in a community located in southern Sweden. During 2011, a total of three group interviews were performed to capture the employed nurses’ perceptions of this newly established SC. The interview texts were analyzed by way of qualitative content analysis. A first reading of the interview texts revealed that the nurses’ perceptions of the service center were unwaveringly positive but that their beliefs about who the specific target group were differed. The main finding was summarized by the theme: Making a difference—on an individual, professional, and organizational level. The sub themes were: 24-hour availability, unclear assignment, and preventing mental illness. The findings indicate a need for a community round-the-clock service center in this Swedish community and a more clear definition of the target group.
基金Kristianstad University The Research Board Kristianstad University
文摘This study illuminates nine psychiatric disabled persons’ lived experience of a newly established community-based service center open around the clock. This new 24-hour support center (SC) was established in 2011 in a Swedish community to better match and facilitate the disabled persons’ needs. In order to illuminate the disabled person’s experiences individual interview was performed. A phenomenological-hermeneutical method inspired by Paul Ricoeur was used to interpret the texts. After a naive reading, a structural analysis revealed two themes: 1), becoming aware of myself as a person, and 2) having a lifeline and belongingness. The comprehensive understanding was interpreted as meaning “Making me feel almost like an ordinary person”, which incorporated the person’s past with their present together with a direction for the future and hope for a more fulfilling life.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant No.61373062]The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant No.30920130111010]Social Development Project of Wujiang City,[grant No.WS201217].
文摘Objective:Community health services are an emerging trend.We have found in practice that diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in the community are distinct.The respiratory department’s daily work involves a number of outpatient registration items and a vast workload.The routine manual operation is inefficient and it is not convenient to make effective statistical analysis of the outpatient data to identify the risk factors closely related to diseases.Therefore,it is imperative to process the outpatient information of patients with respiratory diseases effectively and efficiently in a unified manner by means of computer technology.Methods:The design and realization of the Community Health Service-oriented computerassisted Information System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Diseases(CHS-DTRD)was completed as part of the community intervention study on bronchial asthma that was carried out jointly by the Nanjing First Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University and the Hospital of Nanjing University of Science&Technology,and based on 2 years of experience and the needs of an overall analysis.Results:The computer-assisted information system for diagnosis and treatment was developed using Java Server Page(JSP)technology and introducing the advanced Asynchronous JavaScript XML(AJAX)technique and MS-SQL Server was used in the background database.CHS-DTRD was composed of eight functional modules(outpatient data maintenance,outpatient appointment,intelligent analysis for disease risk factors,query and statistics,data dictionary maintenance,database manipulation,access control,and system configuration).CHS-DTRD featured a friendly interface,convenient operation,and stability and reliability.Conclusion:Community health-oriented diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases is simple,programmable,and intuitive,thus the workload of physicians is significantly reduced and the work efficiency is improved.This system facilitates an intelligent analysis of disease risk factors using data mining technology,and provides physicians with suggestions on intelligent analysis for diagnosis of disease and conclusion of disease causes.
基金This study was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71704130)the special fund from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2016T90211).
文摘Objective:We aimed to explore the efficiency of community health centers(CHCs)in China from 2013 to 2015,providing policy suggestions for optimizing the allocation of health resources.Methods:Data on the efficiency of CHCs in 30 provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities in China's Mainland(except Tibet)from 2013 to 2015 were collected from China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2014,China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2015,and China’s Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2016.Data envelopment analysis and Malmquist index analysis were performed to investigate the efficiency of sampled CHCs during this period at the national level and the regional level.The applied input indicators include the numbers of CHCs,community health workers,and beds,and the output indicators consist of the numbers of visits and inpatients,the occupancy rate of beds,and the average length of stay.Results:In 2015,the average annual overall technical efficiency,pure technical efficiency,and scale efficiency of CHCs in 30 regions at the national level were 0.715,0.705,and 0.972,respectively.Eight regions(Guangdong,Guizhou,Hainan,Ningxia,Qinghai,Shanghai,Zhejiang,and Chongqing,accounting for 26.7%of the total)had efficient CHCs with overall technical ef-ficiency of 1.000,and the other 22 regions had surpluses of 131 CHCs,5573 community health workers,and 2086 beds on average.In 2015,the average annual technical change index,pure technical efficiency change index,total factor productivity,technical efficiency change index,and scale efficiency change index of CHCs at the national level were 1.034,1.002,1.024,0.990,and 0.988,respectively.Compared with 2013,the former three increased by 3.4%,0.2%,and 2.4%,respectively,while the latter two decreased by 1.0%and 1.2%,respectively.Conclusion:On the whole,efficiency improvements of CHCs were achieved at the national level from 2013 to 2015,but with obvious interregional differences.In regions with inefficient CHCs identified by data envelopment analysis,there was a problem of coexistence of shortage and wastage of community health resources.In view of this,targeted measures should be taken to optimize the allocation of community health resources,and the management of CHCs should be strengthened to improve the efficiency of these institutions.