Objective:To assess the private hospital development in China during 2005-2016 from a global perspective.Methods:We searched the English and Chinese literature in PubMed,CNKI and Google Scholar databases with the keywords including“private hospitals in China”,“hospital ownership”,“public and private hospital”,“private hospital development”.Descriptive statistical analysis was used to assess the trend of the private hospital development in China and worldwide.Both the change of private hospitals in supply capacity and health care delivery were studied in this paper.The number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital were employed to measure the supply capacity.The visit number,inpatients number,and bed occupancy rate(BOR)were used to measure the healthcare delivery.The data was collected from the China Health Statistical Yearbook and the“Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development(OECD)Statistics”website.Results:The private sector rapidly expanded in China’s hospital market in recent years.The number of private hospitals exceeded the public in 2015.There has also been a signi cant rise for the indicators of both the supply capacity(including number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital)and the health care delivery(inpatients number and BOR)of the private hospitals.However,the growth rates of them were relatively lower than the public.The expansion trend of China’s private sector in the hospital market accorded with most the OECD countries around the world.In 2016,China was above the medium level of the share of the private hospitals’number with the OECD countries,but below the medium for the supply capacity,in terms of the hospital beds.Conclusion:As a result of the economic growth and supporting policy,the private sector has experienced a vast expansion in China’s hospital market in the past decade.The rising gap in average size between private and publicly owned hospital
坚持公平是国家医药卫生体制改革的基本原则之一。本文评估了覆盖2.5亿城镇人口的城镇居民基本医疗保险参保个人受益的公平性。理论模型显示,对于政府提供的均等化基本医疗保险,高收入参保人群的受益超过低收入人群。我们利用2007—2011年"国务院城镇居民基本医疗保险试点评估调查"数据,通过两部模型(Two Part Model)等方法对城镇居民基本医疗保险参保个人的受益公平性进行分析,结果与理论模型分析结论保持一致。本文的基本判断是:均等化补偿制度下的基本医疗保险将造成低收入参保人受益的劣势,且由于低收入人群健康水平更差,这样的制度设计将加剧健康的不公平。本研究将为进一步完善中国基本医疗保险制度提供决策参考依据。
