Progress on the rural health issues from the village community perspective：A reflection on“Study of village power and rural health service management mode”
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2015.05.010
- VernacularTitle:村社视角下农村医疗卫生问题研究新进展--读《村社力量与农村基层卫生服务治理模式研究》的思考
- Author:
Meng TIAN
;
Min SUN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Village community;
Rural health;
Government;
Market;
Governance
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2015;(5):54-61
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The core problem of current rural health services is a governance problem, that is, how the basic rural health resources can be used more effectively. Based on the study of history and reality, this paper suggests that in the existing “government-market” framework, the village is the third perspective worthy of consideration. Inside the village community, the trust, network and cooperation between people which were based on the traditional rural acquaintances society capital and the institutional resources in the organizations at the primary level will be able to in-crease the degree of organization, thereby reducing the transaction costs between the government or the market and rural residents. The village power will be able to better take advantage of government and market mechanisms, and thus solve the problem of rural health resource utilization more effectively.
