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An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing
BACKGROUND: A shortage of community health professionals has been a crucial issue hindering the development of CHS. Various methods have been established to calculate health workforce requirements. This study aimed to use an economic-research-based approach to calculate the number of community healt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27923394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-016-0152-5 |
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author | Yin, Delu Yin, Tao Yang, Huiming Xin, Qianqian Wang, Lihong Li, Ninyan Ding, Xiaoyan Chen, Bowen |
author_facet | Yin, Delu Yin, Tao Yang, Huiming Xin, Qianqian Wang, Lihong Li, Ninyan Ding, Xiaoyan Chen, Bowen |
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description | BACKGROUND: A shortage of community health professionals has been a crucial issue hindering the development of CHS. Various methods have been established to calculate health workforce requirements. This study aimed to use an economic-research-based approach to calculate the number of community health professionals required to provide community health services in the Xicheng District of Beijing and then assess current staffing levels against this ideal. METHODS: Using questionnaires, we collected relevant data from 14 community health centers in the Xicheng District, including resident population, number of different health services provided, and service volumes. Through 36 interviews with family doctors, nurses, and public health workers, and six focus groups, we were able to calculate the person-time (equivalent value) required for each community health service. Field observations were conducted to verify the duration. RESULTS: In the 14 community health centers in Xicheng District, 1752 health workers were found in our four categories, serving a population of 1.278 million. Total demand for the community health service outstripped supply for doctors, nurses, and public health workers, but not other professionals. The method suggested that to properly serve the study population an additional 64 family doctors, 40 nurses, and 753 public health workers would be required. CONCLUSIONS: Our calculations indicate that significant numbers of new health professionals are required to deliver community health services. We established time standards in minutes (equivalent value) for each community health service activity, which could be applied elsewhere in China by government planners and civil society advocates. |
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spelling | pubmed-51422782016-12-15 An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing Yin, Delu Yin, Tao Yang, Huiming Xin, Qianqian Wang, Lihong Li, Ninyan Ding, Xiaoyan Chen, Bowen Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: A shortage of community health professionals has been a crucial issue hindering the development of CHS. Various methods have been established to calculate health workforce requirements. This study aimed to use an economic-research-based approach to calculate the number of community health professionals required to provide community health services in the Xicheng District of Beijing and then assess current staffing levels against this ideal. METHODS: Using questionnaires, we collected relevant data from 14 community health centers in the Xicheng District, including resident population, number of different health services provided, and service volumes. Through 36 interviews with family doctors, nurses, and public health workers, and six focus groups, we were able to calculate the person-time (equivalent value) required for each community health service. Field observations were conducted to verify the duration. RESULTS: In the 14 community health centers in Xicheng District, 1752 health workers were found in our four categories, serving a population of 1.278 million. Total demand for the community health service outstripped supply for doctors, nurses, and public health workers, but not other professionals. The method suggested that to properly serve the study population an additional 64 family doctors, 40 nurses, and 753 public health workers would be required. CONCLUSIONS: Our calculations indicate that significant numbers of new health professionals are required to deliver community health services. We established time standards in minutes (equivalent value) for each community health service activity, which could be applied elsewhere in China by government planners and civil society advocates. BioMed Central 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5142278/ /pubmed/27923394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-016-0152-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Yin, Delu Yin, Tao Yang, Huiming Xin, Qianqian Wang, Lihong Li, Ninyan Ding, Xiaoyan Chen, Bowen An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title | An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title_full | An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title_fullStr | An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title_full_unstemmed | An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title_short | An economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in Xicheng District, Beijing |
title_sort | economic-research-based approach to calculate community health-staffing requirements in xicheng district, beijing |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27923394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-016-0152-5 |
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