Private hospital expansion in China:a global perspective  

作　　者：Chenhui Deng Xiaosong Li Jay Pan 

机构地区：[1]West China School of Public Health,Sichuan University,No.17,Section 3,Ren Min Nan Road,Chengdu 610041,China [2]West China Research Center for Rural Health Development,Sichuan University,No.17,Section 3,Ren Min Nan Road,Chengdu 610041,China

出　　处：《Global Health Journal》2018年第2期33-46,共14页全球健康杂志（英文）

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.71303165);Sichuan University(Grant No.2015SCU04A19 and 2018SCUH0027);China Medical Board(Grant No.17-276)for their financial support.

摘　　要：Objective:To assess the private hospital development in China during 2005-2016 from a global perspective.Methods:We searched the English and Chinese literature in PubMed,CNKI and Google Scholar databases with the keywords including“private hospitals in China”,“hospital ownership”,“public and private hospital”,“private hospital development”.Descriptive statistical analysis was used to assess the trend of the private hospital development in China and worldwide.Both the change of private hospitals in supply capacity and health care delivery were studied in this paper.The number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital were employed to measure the supply capacity.The visit number,inpatients number,and bed occupancy rate(BOR)were used to measure the healthcare delivery.The data was collected from the China Health Statistical Yearbook and the“Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development(OECD)Statistics”website.Results:The private sector rapidly expanded in China’s hospital market in recent years.The number of private hospitals exceeded the public in 2015.There has also been a signi cant rise for the indicators of both the supply capacity(including number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital)and the health care delivery(inpatients number and BOR)of the private hospitals.However,the growth rates of them were relatively lower than the public.The expansion trend of China’s private sector in the hospital market accorded with most the OECD countries around the world.In 2016,China was above the medium level of the share of the private hospitals’number with the OECD countries,but below the medium for the supply capacity,in terms of the hospital beds.Conclusion:As a result of the economic growth and supporting policy,the private sector has experienced a vast expansion in China’s hospital market in the past decade.The rising gap in average size between private and publicly owned hospital

关 键 词：PRIVATE HOSPITAL publicly OWNED HOSPITAL HEALTH REFORM China 

分 类 号：R[医药卫生]