社会资本投资于医疗服务领域的相关政策

目前,我国开放医疗服务市场,鼓励社会资本投资于卫生领域,需要明确几个重要的相关政策:打破行政垄断,放宽市场准入;平衡卫生服务的规划指导与市场竞争的关系;在市场开放的同时,必须保证基本医疗服务需求;明确社会资本投资与卫生的重点和途径;完善分类管理政策和公立医院向民办营利性医院和非营利性医院转制的政策;鼓励公立医院的管理体制和治理结构创新;加强对医疗服务市场的监管,克服市场失灵.     

PPP医疗项目关键成功因素分析

随着政府与社会资本合作模式(PPP)在中国的推广运用,越来越多的社会资本参与到公共设施的融资、设计、建造和运营中来。然而,由于PPP本身的复杂性和合同义务的长期性,PPP项目要实现落地并不容易。目前,部分PPP医疗项目在吸引社会资本进入和提供服务上遇到困难。本文通过文献综述和专家咨询获得中国医疗领域PPP的18个关键成功因素(CSF),包括收益分配合理、政府政策稳定、风险分担合理、职责划分明确等,并通过近期财政部PPP中心综合信息平台项目库的公开资料来验证中国PPP关键成功因素体系,为促进PPP成功达成协议提供参考。     

公私合作模式在我国城市医疗服务业中应用的探讨

公私合作模式已经在各国的公共事业方面得到了很好的发展。我国的城市医疗服务业正面临着需求增长和供给不足的矛盾,通过探讨公私合作模式在我国城市医疗服务业中应用的可行性和前景,认为公私合作模式将为我国的医疗改革提供一个全新的出路,在我国的城市医疗事业中发挥重要作用。     

Provider networks and primary‐care signups: do they restrict the use of medical services?

This article analyzes the effect of gatekeeper and network restrictions on use of health‐care services using simulation‐based estimation methods. Data from the Community Tracking Survey (1996–1997) show significant evidence of selection into plans with gatekeeper and/or network restrictions. Enrollees in plans with networks of physicians have fewer office‐based visits to non‐physician medical professionals, but more emergency room visits and hospital stays. Individuals in plans that require signups with a primary‐care provider have more visits to non‐physician providers of care, more surgeries and hospital stays but substantially fewer emergency room visits. Enrollees of plans that do not pay for out‐of‐network services have more office‐based and emergency room visits, but less surgeries and hospitalizations. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Institutional logic in self‐management support: coexistence and diversity

The prevalence of chronic conditions in Europe has been the subject of health‐political reforms that have increasingly targeted collaboration between public, private and voluntary organisations for the purpose of supporting self‐management of long‐term diseases. The international literature describes collaboration across sectors as challenging, which implies that their respective logics are conflicting or incompatible. In line with the European context, recent Norwegian health policy advocates inter‐sectorial partnerships. The aim of this policy is to create networks supporting better self‐management for people with chronic conditions. The purpose of our qualitative study was to map different understandings of self‐management support in private for‐profit, volunteer and public organisations. These organisations are seen as potential self‐management support networks for individuals with chronic conditions in Norway. From December 2012 to April 2013, we conducted 50 semi‐structured interviews with representatives from relevant health and well‐being organisations in different parts of Norway. According to the theoretical framework of institutional logic, representatives’ statements are embedded with organisational understandings. In the analysis, we systematically assessed the representatives’ different understandings of self‐management support. The institutional logic we identified revealed traits of organisational historical backgrounds, and transitions in understanding. We found that the merging of individualism and fellowship in contemporary health policy generates different types of logic in different organisational contexts. The private for‐profit organisations were concerned with the logic of a healthy appearance and mindset, whereas the private non‐profit organisations emphasised fellowship and moral responsibility. Finally, the public, illness‐oriented organisations tended to highlight individual conditions for illness management. Different types of logic may attract different users, and simultaneously, a diversity of logic types may challenge collaboration at the user's expense. Moral implications embed institutional logic implying a change towards individual responsibility for disease. Policy makers ought to consider complexities of logic in order to tailor the different needs of users.     

Have out‐of‐pocket health care payments risen under free health care policy? The case of Sri Lanka

Compared to its neighbors, Sri Lanka performs well in terms of health. Health care is provided for free in the public sector, yet households' out‐of‐pocket health expenditures are steadily increasing. We explore whether this increase can be explained by supply shortages and insufficient public health care financing or whether it is rather the result of an income‐induced demand for supplementary and higher quality services from the private sector. We focus on total health care expenditures and health care expenditures for specific services such as expenses on private outpatient treatments and expenses on laboratory and other diagnostic services. Overall, we find little indication that limited supply of public health care per se pushes patients into the private sector. Yet income is identified as one key driver of rising health care expenditures, ie, as households get richer, they spend an increasing amount on private services suggesting a dissatisfaction with the quality offered by the public sector. Hence, quality improvements in the public sector seem to be necessary to ensure sustainability of the public health care sector. If the rich and the middle class increasingly opt out of public health care, the willingness to pay taxes to finance the free health care policy will certainly shrink.     

THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE TOWARD THE END OF LIFE: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the health care expenditure of end‐of‐life patients and hospital characteristics in Taiwan where (i) hospitals of different ownership differ in their financial incentives; (ii) patients are free to choose their providers; and (iii) health care services are paid for by a single public payer on a fee‐for‐services basis with a global budget cap. Utilizing insurance claims for 11 863 individuals who died during 2005–2007, we trace their hospital expenditures over the last 24 months of their lives. We find that end‐of‐life patients who are treated by private hospitals in general are associated with higher inpatient expenditures than those treated by public hospitals, while there is no significant difference in days of hospital stay. This finding is consistent with the difference in financial incentives between public and private hospitals in Taiwan. Nevertheless, we also find that the public–private differences vary across accreditation levels. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Do private hospitals outperform public hospitals regarding efficiency,accessibility, and quality of care in the European Union? A literature review

European countries have enhanced the scope of private provision within their health care systems. Privatizing services have been suggested as a means to improve access, quality, and efficiency in health care. This raises questions about the relative performance of private hospitals compared with public hospitals. Most systematic reviews that scrutinize the performance of the private hospitals originate from the United States. A systematic overview for Europe is nonexisting. We fill this gap with a systematic realist review comparing the performance of public hospitals to private hospitals on efficiency, accessibility, and quality of care in the European Union. This review synthesizes evidence from Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Austria, Spain, and Portugal. Most evidence suggests that public hospitals are at least as efficient as or are more efficient than private hospitals. Accessibility to broader populations is often a matter of concern in private provision: Patients with higher social‐economic backgrounds hold better access to private hospital provision, especially in private parallel systems such as the United Kingdom and Greece. The existing evidence on quality of care is often too diverse to make a conclusive statement. In conclusion, the growth in private hospital provision seems not related to improvements in performance in Europe. Our evidence further suggests that the private (for‐profit) hospital sector seems to react more strongly to (financial) incentives than other provider types. In such cases, policymakers either should very carefully develop adequate incentive structures or be hesitant to accommodate the growth of the private hospital sector.     

Users of home‐care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation: the rich,the poor and the sick

Stricter access to public services, outsourcing of municipal services and increasing allocation of public funding for the purchase of private services have resulted in a marketisation wave in Finland. In this context of a Nordic welfare state undergoing marketisation, this paper aims to examine the use of Finnish care services among older people and find out who are using these new kinds of private services. How wide is their use and do the users of private care services differ from those who are using public services? How usual is it to mix both public and private care services? The questionnaire survey data set used here was gathered in 2010 among the population aged 75 and over in the cities of Jyväskylä and Tampere (N = 1436). The methods of analysis used include cross‐tabulation, chi‐square tests and multinomial logistic regression. The findings showed that among those respondents who used care services (n = 681), 50% used only public services, 24% utilised solely private services and the remaining 26% used both kinds of services. Users of solely private services had significantly higher income and education as well as better health than those using public services only. The users of public services had the lowest education and income levels and usually lived in rented housing. The third group, those mixing both public and private services, reported poorer health than others. The results increase concerns about the development towards a two‐tier service system, jeopardising universalistic Nordic principles, and also suggest that older people with the highest needs do not receive adequate services without complementing their public provisions with private services.     

基于PEST-SWOT整合模型的公立医院PPP适用性分析

随着政府与社会资本合作(Public Private Partnership,PPP)模式在我国医疗卫生领域大量应用,提高供给改善服务的同时也出现了很多困难和挑战。为了解决这些问题,通过PEST-SWOT整合模型,对公立医院应用PPP模式适用性进行分析,从政府和公立医院视角,进行外部环境条件机会与挑战分析和内部因素优势劣势识别,并提出相应的PPP模式应用策略,从而确保PPP项目物有所值,实现项目目标,为公立医院应用PPP模式提供理论依据和参考。     

非营利性医疗机构补偿机制研究

2000年，我国将医院分为营利性和非营利性两类，大多数公立医院属于非营利性的医院，它在提供基本医疗服务、公共卫生服务和提高健康状况方面发挥着重要作用。政府对非营利性医疗机构补偿不足，已严重影响了医院的发展。文章分析了我国非营利性医疗机构在补偿方面存在的问题，对建立非营利性医疗机构的合理补偿机制的方式及对策进行了探讨。     

The effect of increased cost‐sharing on low‐value service use

We examine the effect of a value‐based insurance design (VBID) program implemented at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost‐sharing for several healthcare services likely to be of low value for most patients: diagnostic services (e.g., imaging services) and surgeries (e.g., spinal surgeries for pain). Using a difference‐in‐differences design coupled with granular, administrative health insurance claims data over the period 2008–2012, we estimate the change in low‐value service use among beneficiaries before and after program implementation relative to a comparison group not exposed to the VBID. Our findings suggest that the VBID significantly reduced the use of targeted services, with an implied elasticity of demand of ?0.22. We find no evidence that the VBID led to substitution to non‐targeted services or increased overall healthcare costs. However, we also observe no evidence that the program led to cost‐savings.     

Impact of Performance‐Based Financing in a Low‐Resource Setting: A Decade of Experience in Cambodia

This paper exploits the geographic expansion of performance‐based financing (PBF) in Cambodia over a decade to estimate its effect on the utilization of maternal and child health services. PBF is estimated to raise the proportion of births occurring in incentivized public health facilities by 7.5 percentage points (25%). A substantial part of this effect arises from switching the location of institutional births from private to public facilities; there is no significant impact on deliveries supervised by a skilled birth attendant, nor is there any significant effect on neonatal mortality, antenatal care and vaccination rates. The impact on births in public facilities is much greater if PBF is accompanied by maternity vouchers that cover user fees, but there is no significant effect among the poorest women. Heterogeneous effects across schemes differing in design suggest that maintaining management authority within a health district while giving explicit service targets to facilities is more effective in raising utilization than contracting management to a non‐governmental organization while denying it full autonomy and leaving financial penalties vague. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Public and private supply of health services by autonomous communities in Spain

This chapter summarizes the main territorial inequalities in health care supply, and the related effects on access and use of health care facilities. Firstly, in the field of primary health care, the most notable inequalities refer to the process of introduction of the reform and to complementary services supply, together with the coverage of and access to some health care programs. Secondly, the distribution of hospital beds across regions is far from being uniform, specially with respect to geriatric and psychiatric beds. In addition, profit oriented private care is unequally distributed across territories. Thirdly, the availability of high-tech health care services is remarkably different across regions, although inequalities have been reduced during the last decade. Inequality in long-term care (not only in terms of supply, but also in access and use) is even higher than regional inequalities in health care supply. In addition to these territorial inequalities there are some significant gender inequalities.     

医疗服务公私伙伴关系个案分析及对中国的启示——基于巴西、南非和印度的分析

当前,世界各国的医疗服务供给都面临严峻挑战.特别是一些发展中国家面临着基层医疗基础设施设备老化、药品短缺、医疗服务能力和效率低下的问题.越来越多的国家开始采用公私伙伴关系来实现其公共政策目标,其中,巴西、南非和印度三国在运用公私伙伴关系转变地方政府角色、提高基层医疗服务能力和效率、促进卫生公平上取得了优异的成绩.文章通过整理分析这三个国家案例来探讨其通过公私伙伴关系改善基层医疗服务供给的基本经验,为我国基层推广和使用医疗服务公私伙伴关系提供参考.     

PPP医疗项目风险分担定性分析

近年来,发达国家运用PPP提供公共医疗基础设施和服务的做法受到了普遍关注。这些国家采用PPP的主要原因包括:一方面翻新、维护和运营医疗基础设施的费用在不断增长,另一方面财政预算因为经济下行而被缩减。因此,政府需要资金来弥补投入不足,并依靠私营部门的专业技术和管理经验来分担经营风险。本文通过文献研究初步获得18个PPP医疗项目的风险因素,然后通过向专家发放调查问卷的方式得到专家对风险分担的定性判断结果。最后得出PPP医疗项目的风险分担方案,为PPP项目成功实施提供参考。     

Understanding an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child’s journey through paediatric care in Western Australia

Objective: To explore caregiver perspectives of their children’s journey through the specialist paediatric service, the Aboriginal Ambulatory Care Coordination Program (AACC), and non‐AACC services at the Perth Children’s Hospital. Methods: Eighteen semi‐structured interviews with families of Aboriginal children were completed. Indigenous research methodology and a phenomenological approach guided data collection and analysis. Results: Four key themes were identified from interviews: hospital admissions, discharge and follow‐up outpatient appointments; communication; financial burden; and cultural issues. Our findings suggest Aboriginal children and their caregivers using the AACC program had more positive and culturally secure experiences than those using non‐AACC services. However, barriers relating to health providers’ understanding of Aboriginal cultural issues and lived experience were commonly discussed, regardless of which service families received. Conclusions: Australian Aboriginal children have an increased use of tertiary hospital care compared to non‐Indigenous children. Healthcare programs specifically designed for Aboriginal children and their families can improve their experience of care in hospital. However, improvements in cultural awareness for other hospital staff is still needed. Implications for public health: Dedicated Aboriginal programs in mainstream services can successfully improve cultural care to their clients, which is fundamental to improving service delivery for families.     

Outcomes of enhanced prenatal services for Medicaid-eligible women in public and private settings.

OBJECTIVE: With changes in Medicaid, more low-income women are receiving prenatal care in private practice settings. The authors sought to determine whether private settings can provide the enhanced prenatal support services for low-income women that have been offered for decades in public settings. METHODS: The authors analyzed birth outcomes of Medicaid-eligible women receiving care from public and private providers certified to deliver enhanced prenatal care services, which included assessments of nutritional, psychosocial, and health educational risks and individualized counseling along with clinical care. Birth outcomes were compared by type of provider setting using multivariate logistic regression models to adjust for differences in risks and use of care. RESULTS: Among settings certified to deliver enhanced perinatal support services, private physicians'' offices had the best risk-adjusted birth outcomes and public health department clinics the worst, while public hospital clinics had outcomes no different from private physicians'' offices. Adjusted for prenatal care use, outcomes were still better for women seen in private physicians'' offices than for women seen in public health department clinics, community clinics, or private hospital clinics. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that given a certification process, private providers can provide enhanced support services as effectively as providers in public practice settings.     

公共卫生服务提供的公私合作模式综述

通过系统整理和分析国内外关于公共卫生服务提供的公私合作模式的研究文献,阐述了公私合作模式的内涵、分类和国内外公共卫生服务公私合作的主要方式和实践应用,并阐明了公共卫生服务领域公私合作对减轻政府财政压力、推动卫生体制创新、促进政府职能转换、提高公共卫生服务效率、提高私立卫生机构综合竞争力及贫困人群服务公平性都有积极作用;指出了公私合作过程中存在合作双方缺乏信任、沟通不足、政府管理滞后、职能不强等影响服务效果的问题;建议建立公私部门信息共享机制、设计合理的风险分担机制、改进政府对公私合作的管理手段、强化政府主导作用等措施;启示我国在基本公共卫生服务公私合作供给过程中要强化政府职责、成立第三方组织对公私合作进行协调、沟通、监督和考核以及建立有效的公私合作机制。     

Public‐private partnership (PPP) development: Toward building a PPP framework for healthy eating

Public‐private partnerships (PPPs) in public health have gained great attention in the global health literature over the last two decades. Evidence suggests that PPPs could contribute to mitigating complex health problems. There is, however, limited knowledge about the process and specific conditions in which PPPs for healthy eating, in particular, can be developed successfully. To address this gap, this article first summarizes the literature, and second, using qualitative content analysis, identifies factors deemed to influence the process of building PPPs for healthy eating. The literature search was undertaken in two stages. The first stage focused on PPPs in public health to understand what constitutes a PPP, and the types and characteristics of PPPs. The second stage sought empirical examples and conceptual papers related to PPPs for healthy eating to identify critical elements that could facilitate or hinder partnerships between the government and the food industry. The search yielded 38 articles on PPPs in public health and 20 on PPPs for healthy eating. The analysis generated 23 individual elements that have the potential to influence a successful process of building PPPs for healthy eating (eg, endorsement from an individual champion, equal representation from partner organizations on board committees). The analysis also yielded five factors that appeared to well‐represent the 23 individual elements of PPP formation: motivation, enablers, governance, benefits, and barriers. These results constitute an important step to understand critical factors involved in the formation of PPPs in public health and should inform additional empirical research to validate them.