School health personnel in primary and secondary schools in China
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2021.11.030
- VernacularTitle:中国中小学校卫生人员队伍结构分析
- Author:
ZHAO Tianjie, ZHU Guangrong, HU Zhen, YAO Haizhou, WANG Haixue, MA Jun，DONG Yanhui
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Author Information
1. School of Public Health, Peking University，Beijing(100191), China
- Publication Type:期刊文章
- Keywords:
Health personnel;
Organization and administration;
Public health;
Questionnaires
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2021;42(11):1732-1735
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To understand the current status of the team structure of health personnel in primary and secondary schools, and to provide suggestions and references for strengthening and optimizing school health workforce.
Methods:A nationwide stratified random cluster sampling method was adopted to select provinces for investigation in stratification from 2015-2016, a total of 16 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, 26 survey sites, 10 027 primary and secondary schools, 9 536 questionnaires of health personnel were collected.
Results:Among the 9 536 school health staffs, there were various types of positions, and different types of schools had different position types construction. Elementary schools had the most part time health care teachers, accounting for 77.6%, while full time school doctors only accounting 10.0%; high schools had the most full time school doctors, accounting for 65.7%, and part time health care teachers only accounting for 15.1 %. There were various employment channels, with the most transfer jobs in schools, accounting for 70.7%. The series of professional titles were diverse, with the teaching profession accounting for 67.4%. Most of school health teachers had junior and intermediate professional titles, accounting for 42.6%, respectively. Proportion of medium, medium low, and low level of salary accounted for 39.3%, 27.9% and 21.1% respectively.
Conclusion:The educational background and age distribution of school health personnel is reasonable, but the proportions of medical background and full time school doctors are relatively low. School health personnel have various job types, professional titles, salary level, and limited space of career development. Top level design from the policy level, and clearly defined improve the structure of school health personnel to meet the needs of high quality development of school health work in the new era.
