Objective To investigate the the status of Health manpower resources of rural hospitals, Health service, health personnel ’s reflection for the hospital’ current issues in Pingshan Xibaipo town in Hebei province, so as to provide baseline data for the establishment of a rural hospital’s comprehensive model.
Method We conducted the survey which using questionnaires to collect the information of the rural hospital staff’s self-evaluation of health services, the reflecting of the problems of the current hospitals ,the views of the future building, village health humen resources for health, etc. SPSS 17.0 sofewarewas used for data analysis.
Result The following problems are existing in Xibaipo town hospitals. (1) The rural hospital infrastructure is poor: 14 beds, housing a total area of 832 square meters is far below the national average. (2) The quality of the health personnel in the rural hospital is low.The proportion of doctors and nurses (1׃0.75) is higher than the Ministry of Health’s standard (1׃1), less educated (only 2 person’s first degree is college), low-level professional titled (the proportion of health officer of no professional title is 42.86%), etc. (3) Health resources in village are scarce: the quality of rural doctors is low (90.91% are non-formal school graduation), village clinics is lack of facilities (16 villages have only a total of 10 village clinics, 5 beds).
Conclusion The infrastructure of the rural hospital was poor,while the situation of the personnel allocation in the rural hospital was irrational ,and the integrated management of the hospital in town and village is not good . The health personnel proposed recommendation about construction of health personnel, departments, information technology , etc .The rural hospital should introduce equipment and personnel, improve health care services and strengthen the integrated management of the hospital in town and village .
Citation： GENG Chen,LIU Dianwu,LIU Jianbo,YAN Chunkai,QI Xianguo,ZHANG Xiaolin,LI Man. A Survey on Health Manpower Resources in Pingshan Xibaipo Town of Hebei Province. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2010, 10(10): 1144-1150. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20100560 Copy