Analysis Of Human Resources For Health Inspection

The building of the troop of health supervisor is the base and core during the development of health supervision system. We should build one health supervisor troop that is self-controlled, honesty and impartial, high-efficient for the need of Chinese reform and opening-up, socialist modernization, such a troop will play a basic and strategic role for ensuring people's health.We should have an objective and comprehensive understanding to the current developing conditions of hygiene supervisory troop, for the purpose of improving their service level, promoting sustainable development of the sanitary affaires, developing and utilizing the human recourses of the health supervision system effectively.Further develop the human resources utilizing and disposing the supervisory organ of the hygiene rationally, promote the supervision system construction of the hygiene, promote the sustainable development of the cause of sanitary control, have investigated and analyzed the current situation of personnel of the hygiene supervisory organ of our country.We analyzed the situation of the hygiene supervisory troop for their scale, structure, recruiting and employing, training, flowing, examining and encouraging, the "analyzing data came from the report of the Strategic Research on Chinese Hygiene Human Resources' Current Situation, the problem and development. The data came from Personnel Department, Talents Exchange Service Center of Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene Management and Policy Research Center of Shandong University. These effective data investigated from 10 provinces and cities in China, 84 hygiene supervisory organs and 2075 staff, and taken stochastic and multistage sampling methods.Major results include 1) Personnel's scale and structure: there are averagely 50.5 persons for each hygiene supervisory organ, 48.6 persons on duty, 2 positions is in vacancy, the space of personnel adjustment has been already very limited. The young and middle-aged personnel with certain working experience have taken a very large Proportion in the sanitary supervisory system, the personnel education background is mainly special secondary school, junior college or undergraduates. The intermediate professional title and technical staff of the hygiene are the largest proportion. The personnel situation is different in different areas and levels. 2) Recruitment and employ situation: The major employment channel of supervisory organ is the assigned of the national graduates, secondly is the personnel transferred and disposed in the reform of public health institutions. The mainly recruiting methods are interview and test of knowledge and skill. More than half staff enter the unit rely on the advantage of their professional skills. There are 68.6% supervisory organs of the hygiene applied the employment contract system, and there are 49.0% Staff satisfied for the system. 3) Staff training situation: There are 86.9% staff has participated in training last year in our sample, most trains are the short-term cultivation, such as theory knowledge, practice skill and job moral education. From investigation, we found that staff welcomed more is the professional practice skill rather than the theory knowledge provided by the trainer. In view of funds, the provincial organizations and the western regions are declining to give more supports on training. 4) Mobility. Quantity of the health workers for inspections has increased with more proportion of high education level. However, 54.9% of the existing health workers would leave their positions if better positions could be found. Income, living condition, individual development, and working environment are the major factors influencing mobility. 5) Performance evaluation and incentives. Quantity and quality of services delivered are the major indictors for performance evaluation. Increase in income and good working environment were the most important factors in the incentive structure.Even though the health workers for health inspections have been expanded over the past years, the functions of the health workers, quality of the health workers, and distribution of the health workers need to be improved. Suggestions from this study include to clearly defining the functions of health inspection workers, to increase positions, to restrict entry of the health workers into inspection department, and strengthening training programs for the health workers.