Present situation and consideration of equalization of essential public health services in Shanghai community health services institutions

The promotion of equalization of essential public health services is an important content of our deepening reform of medical and health system.It has an important significance for protecting health equity and improving health level of residents.Three aspects are described for the present situation of equalization of basic public services work in Shanghai community health services facilities as the equalization of basic public health financial investment,the equalization of basic public health resource allocation and the equalization of basic public health supply.The results show that the equalization of Shanghai essential public health services supply is higher and develops in accordance with the national requirement.The basic and the major projects are increased the same time.The indexes of the service amount and service rate are regularly checked.The equalization of basic public health resource allocation is relatively perfect.The community health service centers or sites are complete and the layout is reasonable.They can satisfy the basic public health service demand of residents.The equalization of basic public health financial investment is inadequate.Low financial investment districts depend on the cheap unit labour costs and more work time of the medical staff.Strengthen the execution of policy document and the reasonable allocation of public health talent team is suggested for the relative scarce human resources problem.The clear financial and administrative power and the improvement of the basic public health service evaluation mechanism are suggested for the problem that fiscal investment affects the equalization of basic public health services.This can improve the level of refinement and the entire of the public health service and management.