Formation mechanism of the weakening of village clinic′ s medical service capacity in Shandong province

Abstract

Objective To explore the formation mechanism of the weakening of village clinic′s medical service capacity in the context of new medical reform. Methods Purposive sampling method was used to enroll 38 rural doctors and managers of rural health centers and health offices in the interview from October 2015 to November 2015. And grounded theory was adopted to analyze reasons and their mechanism of the weakening of village clinic′ s medical service capacity. Results 29 first-grade categories and 7 second-grade categories were worked out in text encoding. With the implementation of the ongoing healthcare reform, support from financial, policy and technology increased significantly, but due to the synthetic action of unexpected negative effects of the reform, superposition and accumulation of disturbance and ineffective support, village clinic′ s medical service capacity began to weaken. Conclusions The weakened village clinic′ s medical service capacity is a result of the synthetic action of 3 reasons. The persistence of this status will intensify the vulnerability of rural health service system and be bad for the implementation of hierarchical medical policy and the strategy of rural vitalization. Measures should be taken to optimization the essential medicine system, establish a comprehensive assessment mechanism for basic medical service and basic public health service of village clinic, strength the strategic purchasing of medical insurance, improve the financial compensation mechanism, and complete training system of village doctors, aims to promoting sustainable development of village clinic. Key words: Village clinic; Village doctor; Medical service; Grounded theory; Vulnerability; Shandong province