The necessity of strengthening the cooperation between tissue banks and organ transplant organizations at national, regional, and international levels

The donation of tissues and organs increases significantly when tissue banks and organ transplant organizations work together in the procurement of organs and tissues at donor sources (hospitals, coroners system, organ procurement agencies, and funeral homes, among others). To achieve this important goal, national competent health authorities should considered the establishment of a mechanism that promote the widest possible cooperation between tissue banks and organ transplant organizations with hospitals, research medical institutions, universities, and other medical institutions and facilities. One of the issues that can facilitate this cooperation is the establishment of a coding and traceability system that could identify all tissues and organs used in transplant activities carried out in any country. The promotion of national, regional, and international cooperation between tissue banks and organ transplant organizations would enable the sharing of relevant information that could be important for medical practice and scientific studies carried out by many countries, particularly for those countries with a weak health care system.     

基于博弈论与激励相容理论的我国分级诊疗体系分析

目的 了解政府、大型综合医院、上级医疗机构与基层医疗机构在分级诊疗体系下的利益诉求,以推进分级诊疗体系的建立。方法 采用博弈论分析这些利益主体间的矛盾,利用激励相容理论提出建议。结果 政府投入不足,上级医疗机构不愿下沉医疗资源,基层医疗机构能力不足等问题阻碍了分级诊疗体系的推行。结论 发挥政府引领作用,加大政府投入;加强医疗机构的分工协作,合理配置医疗资源;提高基层医疗机构服务能力。     

国内外心脏疾病医疗服务质量评估现状

心血管疾病作为全球主要死亡和致残原因,给医疗卫生系统带来了巨大负担。世界各国专家已对该类疾病开展了大量的研究,其中极为重要的一项是通过评价心血管病的医疗服务质量来帮助医院发现问题以及找到提高医疗服务水平的突破口。文章总结并讨论了国内外心脏病医疗服务质量评价的方法、目的、内容以及数据来源,为建立和完善中国的心血管疾病医疗服务质量评估体系提供借鉴。     

不同支付方式住院费用分析

目的:分析住院患者不同支付方式下住院费用差异,为建立合理的医疗费用控制体制提供参考依据。方法:对某院2007~2009年的住院患者的住院天数、年龄、住院费用、性别及支付方式进行分析。结果:年龄、性别和支付方式是影响住院费用的重要因素。至2009年医保患者人群多于自费患者人群,医保患者人数涨幅明显;男性患者多于女性患者;住院费用随着年龄的增长而增加。结论:继续推广城镇职工基本医疗保险,为60岁以上人群制定更有针对性的政策。     

Health problems and health care for adolescents in residential facilities in Quebec.

The health problems of 160 adolescents in four residential facilities of the Quebec social welfare court were studied. At the time of admission 44% had at least one problem requiring consultation with a specialist and 80% had an average of two problems requiring primary care. The medical records of 106 youngsters in two re-education centres were also reviewed and similar results were noted. The health services available, particularly physical examination and laboratory testing at the time of admission and arrangements for referral and follow-up were judged to be insufficient in most centres. Although society has taken custody of these adolescents, no one is responsible for their health care. Since February 1976 the social welfare court residential facilities and the network involved in the care of socially disturbed youngsters have been undergoing reorganization. Health programs and services ought to be part of this reorganization, and private physicians, hospitals and government each should have a role in the establishment and functioning of these programs.     

建立适合中国国情的高效双向转诊机制

建立适应我国国情的高效双向转诊机制,对于推进我国的医疗体制改革具有至关重要的作用。本文通过对中西方现行卫生制度的对比,结合我国有中国特色的社会主义国家的国情,对我国的卫生制度中存在的问题进行了深入剖析,探讨如何才能有效地实现高效的双向转诊。目前,我国医疗卫生事业的问题覆盖多个方面：主要表现在医疗资源,医院管理,在岗医护人员的个人职业素质,卫生部门的监管,医疗资源的大量浪费,医院分级不平衡另多数患者普遍选择三级医院就诊,而选择二级以下医院就诊的患者则较少。如何在符合我国国情的基础上改变我国的医疗卫生现状、满足人民群众不断提高的医疗服务需求是我国医疗改革亟待解决的问题。建立高效率的双向转诊制度势在必行。目前,在双向转诊中遇到的问题：1．传统理念导致的对各级医疗机构职能的理解上存在偏差,2．医疗机构自身定位不明确,3．双向转诊制度的各项相关配套政策不完善,4．双向转诊制度的社会认同度低。高效双向转诊机制建立以后,可以节省大量的医疗资源,减少了不必要的浪费,推进了医疗资源的合理配置,减少了因地区差异引起的治疗时机延误,高效的双向转诊制度会使医疗卫生资源配置进一步优化、还可以加强医疗机构之间的协作、降低医疗费用支出、促进社区卫生服务迅速发展等有重大的意义。     

The formation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the development of a medical specialty, 1964-1973

In April 1964, seven physicians met to discuss the formation of a new medical society for clinicians interested in the management of patients with cancer. Chemical warfare research during World War II had led to the advent of chemotherapeutic agents, a new, systemic approach toward cancer treatment. While skeptics questioned the benefits of chemotherapy, some internists viewed these drugs as promising new tools. Founders of the American Society of Clinical Oncology built their organization upon the importance, despite potential dangers, of utilizing chemotherapy as an essential component of cancer treatment, and positioned themselves as best qualified to manage the care of patients with cancer. The establishment of a new professional organization helped to anchor medical oncology as a distinct field during a time of increasing medical specialization in the United States. This essay examines the Society's early history within a broader context of the development of new chemical agents and cooperative groups, the formation of a new subspecialty, and increasing federal involvement in health care policy and funding, and describes the struggle of medical oncologists to solidify their authority over clinical cancer research and patient care.     

医保体制下过度医疗的成因与控制策略分析

随着新一轮医改的不断深入,我国初步建立了一套适合我国国情的基本医疗卫生体系及医疗保障制度。伴随着医疗卫生事业的蓬勃发展,医疗费用也随之出现了快速增长,过度医疗是导致医疗费用快速上涨的重要原因之一。本文从需方、供方、医疗体制三方分析了其产生的原因,并探讨了国外开展的医疗费用控制对医疗市场参与主体的影响。最后,针对医疗市场自身必须适应国情、适合社会发展阶段的特点,为我国实现新医改目标提供了一些建设性的意见。     

The problematization of medical tourism: a critique of neoliberalism

The past two decades have seen the extensive privatisation and marketisation of health care in an ever reaching number of developing countries. Within this milieu, medical tourism is being promoted as a rational economic development strategy for some developing nations, and a makeshift solution to the escalating waiting lists and exorbitant costs of health care in developed nations. This paper explores the need to problematize medical tourism in order to move beyond one dimensional neoliberal discourses that have, to date, dominated the arena. In this problematization, the paper discusses a range of understandings and uses of the term 'medical tourism' and situates it within the context of the neoliberal economic development of health care internationally. Drawing on theory from critical medical anthropology and health and human rights perspectives, the paper critically analyzes the assumed independence between the medical tourism industry and local populations facing critical health issues, where social, cultural and economic inequities are widening in terms of access, cost and quality of health care. Finally, medical tourism is examined in the local context of India, critiquing the increasingly indistinct roles played by government and private sectors, whilst linking these shifts to global market forces.     

我国县级公立医院改革关键问题与路径选择

自县级公立医院改革试点以来,在各领域都有所探索并形成初步的改革思路。但是,在改革中仍有不少关键问题未得到解决,诸如：改革的多元顶层设计思路、补偿机制的持续性与稳定性、地方政府财政压力加重、医院管理体制机制改革未能协同进行、调动和保障医务人员积极性的机制亟待完善、医疗服务定价无法体现医疗服务价值、人才队伍建设滞后、医保基金的使用等。建议下一步县级公立医院改革应在多元化、多层次的顶层设计指导下,坚持公益性与医院经营效益相结合,建立县级公立医院的现代医院管理制度。改革要从创新人力资本管理机制、完善破除“以药补医”后的补偿机制和配套措施、推进法人治理和政事分开、加强医保基金对居民医疗需求的引导、加快医院信息化建设等方向上寻求突破。     

Unmet need for additional medical care for sick children in mother's view in rural Bangladesh: implications for improving child health services

While a country's health policy aims to provide health services to all who need them, very little in known about unmet need for additional medical care from users' perspectives in Bangladesh. This study examined unmet medical need (defined as whether a mother felt that, to manage sickness, her child had required medical care that was not available, regardless of reasons and medical care sought) of 2123 under-15 sick children by illness and child's socioeconomic characteristics in rural Bangladesh. The 1996 Health and Socioeconomic Survey conducted in Matlab recorded children's chronic (a disease or a condition lasting 3 months or more) and acute (a disease or a condition with a rapid onset and a short, severe course) morbidity, medical care sought to combat illness and unmet needs for additional medical services in mothers' views to manage the illness. The survey also recorded household socioeconomic data. Logistic regression was used to examine the data. The results reveal that unmet needs for additional medical care were 5.4% for children with acute illnesses, and 30.2% for children with chronic illnesses. For chronic illnesses, seeking medical care to manage illness from any health provider outside the home reduced unmet medical needs. Economic inequalities existed for both acute and chronic illnesses: the odds ratio of unmet medical needs for sick children of the least poor households was 0.42 (95% CI: 0.28-0.64) times that for sick children of the very poor households. The critically high unmet needs for children's chronic morbidity reveal that the chronic disease control programme in Bangladesh needs urgent revisiting and strengthening.     

不同支付方式住院费用分析

目的：分析住院患者不同支付方式下住院费用差异,为建立合理的医疗费用控制体制提供参考依据。方法：对某院2007~2009年的住院患者的住院天数、年龄、住院费用、性别及支付方式进行分析。结果：年龄、性别和支付方式是影响住院费用的重要因素。至2009年医保患者人群多于自费患者人群,医保患者人数涨幅明显;男性患者多于女性患者;住院费用随着年龄的增长而增加。结论：继续推广城镇职工基本医疗保险,为60岁以上人群制定更有针对性的政策。     

Use of traditional and modern health services by Laotian refugees.

Although refugee health care emerged as a special interest in the United States following the influx of almost a million Southeast Asians since 1975, few studies have been done of the influence of refugee traditions on the use of Western medical services. The illness patterns, medical beliefs, and health care behavior of a Southeast Asian refugee group, the Mien from Laos are described in this study. A cohort of 119 Mien refugees living in Richmond, California, was observed for a 6-month period. In-home interviews were undertaken about all episodes of ill health, including treatment and health care decisions. This study shows that the Mien integrate traditional healing beliefs and practices with the use of American health services. Such findings are important because the increasing cultural diversity in the United States, particularly in Western states, necessitates that health care professionals understand the importance of cultural factors for access to and the use of health care by all patients including refugees and other immigrant groups.     

MEDICAL CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

Medical care applies to the individual, and public health to the community. One is the concentrated application of diagnosis and treatment for the life, the comfort of a patient, and includes guidance in health as for motherhood, infancy, childhood and old age.Public health services, provided by the community through its local government and the local department of health, are concerned with the prevention of diseases of all kinds. Some are controlled by sanitary authority, but the majority of preventable diseases are dealt with by public health education.It is not the function of the health department to treat the sick. The family physicians, the hospitals and dispensaries provide for medical care. Medical care of the sick and public health protection are two parallel activities to make use of medical science, one for treatment, the other for prevention of disease.     

Maya mobile medicine in Guatemala: the "other" public health

Maya mobile medical providers in highland Guatemala and the goods and services that they offer from "soapboxes" on street corners, local markets, and on buses exemplify an important yet underinvestigated domain of localized health care, one that I refer to as the "other" public health. This medical and linguistic examination of traveling medical salespeople calls for a reconsideration (on a global scale) of what has come to be understood as "public health," arguing that "othered," local forms of public health that are often overlooked by anthropologists as "nontraditional" and delegitimized by bio-medicine as nonscientific merit serious consideration and investigation. This ethnography of marginalized forms of public health offers global insights into emerging heterodoxical forms of public health care that contest bio-medical authority and challenge our preexisting definitions of what counts as "access," wellness seeking, and even health care itself.     

Volunteering in Nha Trang, Vietnam: senior medical students' perspectives of a surgical mission trip

Vietnam has had a long history of international mission teams that volunteer needed surgical care to underserved populations for various medical problems. As senior medical students, we joined a non-profit organization's surgical mission trip led by a community practice surgeon and staffed by 32 health care professionals to provide cleft lip and palate reconstructions for 75 patients at a local hospital in Nha Trang, Vietnam. As a surgical mission team in a resource-poor country, we intended to fill gaps and unmet areas of need by offering care that patients would otherwise not receive. But in doing so, we encountered other gaps in health care for which we did not have adequate preparation or solutions: insufficient primary care, lack of understanding of others' cultural contexts, absence of knowledge of patients' socioeconomic contexts, and problems in other countries' health care systems. Although the purpose of our mission was to provide a specific service, we felt it is important to examine the service in the context of these broader issues. We considered these concerns from two different perspectives: what a medical mission gives and what it does not. In this article, we present several issues that our medical mission confronted and how they were both addressed and overlooked.     

DISASTER MEDICAL CARE AND SHELTER-The Federal Program

The role of the physician in event of natural disaster or overwhelming (perhaps nuclear) attack by an enemy is:To assist the layman in preparing to meet his own health needs in a disaster situation until organized health services can reach him. To prepare and plan for the provision of organized medical care when conditions permit. To extend his own capability to render medical care outside his normal specialty. To assist in the training of allied and professional health workers and laymen for specific mobilization assignments in health services.     

Drug control: a prerequisite for health

The purchase of drugs employs an increasingly large part of the health budget of many Third World countries. Like health care expenditure as a whole, drug spending is heavily biased in favour of urban hospitals, often for expensive proprietary drugs that offer little benefit over cheaper preparations. As a result, because limited funds are available, vaccines and drugs for prevention and primary care are sometimes unavailable, especially in rural areas. The World Health Organization and many individual countries have responded to the problem of drug costs by creating a limited list of drugs considered essential for health care needs. Other methods of curtailing spending on drugs have included tendering for supplies and the establishment of plants to manufacture and formulate drugs. Controls of this type meet enormous resistance from doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers, but are vital for the implementation of policies for appropriate health care.     

DISASTER MEDICAL CARE AND SHELTER—The Federal Program

The role of the physician in event of natural disaster or overwhelming (perhaps nuclear) attack by an enemy is:To assist the layman in preparing to meet his own health needs in a disaster situation until organized health services can reach him.To prepare and plan for the provision of organized medical care when conditions permit.To extend his own capability to render medical care outside his normal specialty.To assist in the training of allied and professional health workers and laymen for specific mobilization assignments in health services.     

Universities and medical schools: reflections on a half-century of Canadian medical education.

After 50 years of accelerated development, universities and medical schools have entered a period of uncertainty and instability. The Flexnerian paradigm of medical education, rooted in biomedical science and conducted under the aegis of a university, reached its apotheosis by the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Fuelled by the introduction of comprehensive, government-sponsored health care insurance and advances in technology, the demand for health care professionals and for access to facilities increased sharply. Medical education, research and advanced clinical services expanded dramatically aided by the emergence of academic health sciences centres and accompanied by a wave of medical curriculum reform. Now medical schools must strike a dynamic balance in responding to the continued expansion of knowledge and technology, the demand for social equity and the exigencies of prolonged fiscal constraint. They must also balance the biological and sociological approaches to medicine in establishing the foundations for the future development of Canadian medical education.