Outpatient care services are usually the patient's first contact between the patients and the most bas-ic health care. The provision of outpatient care contributes to immediate and large gains in health status. The pay-ment method is one of the most common incentive methods applied by purchasers to guide the performance of outpa-tient care providers. This systematic review applied cochrane review method, and searched, screened, assessed and synthesized the relevant original studies. 19 studies were finally included. It was found that existing payment methods combined with P4 P interventions could probably slightly improved the health professionals' use of some tests and treat-ments ( adjusted RR median = 1 . 095 , range 1 . 01 to 1 . 17 ) , but may have led to little or no difference in patients' utilisation of health services ( adjusted RR median = 1 . 01 , range 0 . 96 to 1 . 15 ) and may have led to little or no difference in the control of blood pressure or cholesterol ( adjusted RR = 1 . 01 , range 0 . 98 to 1 . 04 ) . Pay for per-formance involves a complex design, each detail design may contain different incentive effect, therefore policy makers intend to apply pay-for-performance to guide the behavior of health providers, the design on each components of pay for performance should be analyzed in order to find more potential intervention points.

Medical insurance payment reform is an important part of healthcare reform in China. Based on the practice and research of China Rural Health Project ( hereinafter referred asHealth XI Project) financed by World Bank (WB) and UK Department for International Development (DFID) implemented in 40 counties of 8 Chinese provinces between 2009 and 2014 , this thesis analyses the principle and feasible policy route of medical payment re-form for the country, by ways of reviewing the policy evolution, and summarizing the process of project pilot from sin-gle mode of payment-a simple mixed payment-to the comprehensive payment system reform and analyzing the advanta-ges and disadvantages of medical insurance payment methods.

Since the reform and opening up, the government of China has continuously adjusted its foreign medical policy and vigorously guided foreign investment to set up medical institutions in pilot provinces and cities. Based on healthy China 2030 plan, the paper summed up the foreign medical policy adjustment's process from its establishment, stagnation, and development to reform in China. The government of China liberalizes the market for foreign medical gradually, but the foreign medical institution is facing a series of bottlenecks, such as the lack of le-gal regulations, the cumbersome of approval procedures, and the limit of development and so on. The development of foreign medical care should be under the guidance of the country's legal and policy. Foreign medical institution can carry out some special medical care to improve the health of the residents.

Objective:The main objective of this study is to analyze the development trend of China's private healthcare providers since the issue of Document No. 58 by the General Office of the State Council in the year 2010. It intends to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy on encouragement and guidance to private healthcare. Methods:(1) Using the statistical data collected from national and provincial healthcare yearbook, we made a comparative a-nalysis on seven indicators regarding the development of private healthcare providers, including the number of health-care providers, the number of beds, the number of healthcare professionals, annual outpatient diagnose-and-treat per-son-times, annual inpatient hospitalization person-times, bed utilization rate and average length of stay for two periods of time (i. e. 2006—2010 and 2011—2015). (2) A field study was conducted to six selected provinces. In these provinces, essential information of the related policy was collected, held stakeholder interviews and focus group dis-cussions among hospital management team and medical workers and visits to several typical private providers were made to understand the policy effectiveness and existing problems. The study also tried to find the key factors for a successful private healthcare provider in China. Results:(1) The results show that since the issue of Document No. 58 in the year 2010 , the number of China's private healthcare providers has greatly increased while the scale and service capabilities of private providers still need to be improved. (2) As per the results again, a great difference ex-ists between provinces in terms of private healthcare provider development during 2010 to 2015 . Conclusion:A posi-tive impact of government regulation on the development of private healthcare providers was noticed. However, China's private healthcare providers are still facing many invisible obstacles and challenges. The government needs to put more focus on building a cross-department coordination and supporting regulation system to advance the sustain-able development of private healthcare providers. Moreover, the government needs to cautiously promote the Public-Private-Partnership ( PPP) to improve the effective allocation of resources in the healthcare market and provide essen-tial support to private healthcare providers in solving the problems they meet during their development process.

Objective:The paper aims at developing a method of defining and visualizing the scope of the basic medical insurance pharmacy service, and provides a new way of thinking for the designated pharmacy planning. Methods:Collecting the basic data and information on administrative divisions in the planning area taking equity and efficiency as the guidance, using ArcGIS and its function modules to define and visualize the scope of the medical in-surance pharmacy service. The procedure of issue focus, method improvement, data simulation, expert consultation, methodology perfecting were followed to define and visualize the scope. Results:Forming a whole set of operative pro-cedures of defining and visualizing the scope of the medical insurance pharmacy service based on medical resources allocation standard, and the operation commands and procedures in ArcGIS were clarified. Conclusion:Operating ac-cording to the appropriate method steps, the following can be achieved:(1) The adjacent scope of medical insurance pharmacy service are adjacent to each other but do not overlap or cross;(2) Spatial relations can be clearly and ef-fectively expressed;(3) The shape is flat and regular;(4) The data collected at different times can be comparable in space, providing good prerequisites for medical insurance designated pharmacy planning.

Objective: The main objective of the present study is to develop the risk-adjusted capitation pay-ment standards to compensate health service providers. Methods:Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to an-alyze the insured's enrollment and visit conditions, and the two-part model was conducted to obtain the appropriate compensation standard using data retrieved from information system of social health insurance for the period of 2014 to 2015 in Shenzhen City. Results:The estimated value of total expenditure per insured person per month is 6. 17 yuan. Age,sex,insurance level and with or without chronic disease or catastrophic disease were elicited as risk adjustors. The whole number insured people were divided into 52 groups by this four risk-adjustment factors whereby the rele-vant payment standards for each group was calculated. Conclusions:By adjusting capitation fee on the grounds of risk of disease and expected expense of medical services of the insured, the capitation payment standards can be calculat-ed virtually. This method will promote the process of capitation payment system reform and also lay a solid foundation for further research.

DRG-based prospective payment system ( DRG-PPS ) is one type of mature inpatient care payment mechanisms in most countries and pilot projects would be introduced to China in 2017. This article provides an overview of the previous typical DRG-PPS reform initiatives on provincial, municipal and county level respectively. It also summa-rizes the characteristics of the reform programs, describes the diversities of policy implementation, and discusses the suc-cessful experience and implications of the initiatives. The paper puts forward some suggestions on the upcoming DRG-PPS pilot projects based on the progress and problems of the initiatives, to promote the DRG-PPS reform in China.

At present, China's medical service costs keep rising, and residents' out-of-pocket medical expen-ses are also increasing heavily. The prepayment reform of medical insurance is considered as an important starting point to solve the problem. It is of great significance to evaluate the effect of prepaid medical insurance reform on con-trolling medical expenses and reducing economic burden when sick. In order to achieve the objective of this study, a use of CHARLS data 2011 &2015 and DIDPSM theory, and a combination of the Interaction Item Model and PSM model, and make use of a natural experiment developed from experimental reform stage for the comprehensive promo-tion stage of new rural cooperative medical system (NCMS) in 2012, were very crucial. This paper finds that:(1) Prepayment system can control the rise in outpatient and inpatient expenses. Compared with those who did not partici-pate in NCMS in the initial stage of reform, after the universal reform, outpatient and inpatient expenses dropped by 6. 3％ and 41％, the average decrease was 1041yuan and 2895yuan, respectively. (2) After the universal reform, the insured patients' medical burden of outpatient and inpatient reduced by 17％ and 33％. Prepayment system has, to some extent, resisted the rise in medical expense, and alleviated the burden of medical treatment. (3) On the basis of PSM, the estimated value and significance of coefficients have not changed, the effect of PPS reform is good. The poli-cy implication is that accelerating the prepayment system reform is the key way to control the growing medical expenses.

The service capabilities and sustainable development of community doctors' first contact are undoubtedly the critical factors to promote the construction of grassroots clinics and tiered health care system.Based on the review of motivation-related concepts and its development, as well as the analysis of the current conditions of community first contact and characteristics of community doctors in China, this paper puts forward and defines the concept and connotation of service motivation for community doctors' first contact by logically summarizing the concept of force in physical sciences ,motivation in service science, Based on analyzing the extrinsic motivations to form community doctors' first contact such as attraction, support, constraint, and stress the intrinsic motivations produced by professional identity, self-efficacy and achievement,as well as the interactions and relationships between them, this paper contructs a formation mechanism of the service motivation for community doctors' first contact, which is visual and intuitive.This paper provides a logical path and basis for scientific governance and upgrade of the service motivation for community doctors's first contact to effectively promote community first contact system in China.

Germany has a similar health insurance system as China, and has already formed standardized management processes as well as efficient decision-making transformation paths for health technology assessment (HTA) that perform well mainly based on three major HTA institutions at the national level.The HTA decision-making transformation system in Germany has proven to be a typical representative in evidence-based decision-making for health policies worldwide.Based on the outcomes of literature analysis and field research, this paper summarizes the paths and methods of Germany's HTA decision-making transformation, and finally proposes several targeted policy recommendations to promote the HTA decision-making transformation in China.