Discussion Fairness Of Public Health Expenditure In China

Health is the premise for human survival and development. The right to health is our most basic rights. With the continuous development of society, we demand more and more for health, and changes have happened in our country, that gradually we focus as much on prevention healthcare as disease diagnosis and treatment.2015 NPC and CPPCC government work report clearly stated:"We will quickly improve basic health care system. Improve urban and rural residents in the basic medical insurance, and gradually increase the government subsidies, the basic realization of the residents in the province direct billing medical expenses, medical costs for retirees and steady implementation of inter-provincial direct billing. Full implementation of urban and rural residents illness insurance. Deepen the comprehensive reform of primary health care institutions, strengthening general practitioner system, improve the diagnosis and treatment system classification. Fully open county comprehensive reform of public hospitals, to get rid of drugs make doctors and reduce drug prices artificially high, reasonable price adjustment of medical services paid by Medicare and other ways to balance cost, efforts to reduce the burden on the masses.However, differences in economic development between regions led to disparities of income distribution, especially between urban and rural residents, the income gap is widening. Public health resources have a certain limit, influenced by family economic background, many people can’t get a fair public health resources, because the poor can ill afford the opportunity costs and direct costs, coupled with the government does not play an active role, so they can only give public health resources, resulting in public health spending can’t achieve fair.This paper is divided into five chapters, each chapter is summarized as follows. The first part is the introduction, the main issues raised by the need to study the whole article. The second part describes the theoretical study the fairness of public health expenditure. The third part is the analysis of the current situation of public health resources. This chapter focused on the area between the country, public health expenditures between urban and rural areas were compared. The fourth part is to explore the reasons of public health services produced unfair. The fifth part is to make some suggestions and measures used to achieve equitable public health services. By summarizing the full text induction to conclude that the lack of fairness of public health expenditure is the direct cause of the cause of non-equalization of public health services.