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Objective To understand the current situation of dispensary setting and personnel of community health service centers in Pudong New District in Shanghai (hereinafter referred to as Pudong New District).Methods Questionnaire survey covering the 45 community health service centers in Pudong New District was used.Results 42 community health service centers were equipped with TCM dispensaries among the 45 total units (93.3%);12 of them adopted outsourcing mode (26.7%);the average area of community dispensary was (32.3 ± 17.3)m2;the average number of TCM practitioners was 3.5 ± 2.0 people.Conclusion Community health service centers need to increase the allocation area of TCM dispensary and improve qualification of TCM practitioners.
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Objective To evaluate the performance of community health institutions of Pudong new district.Methods According to the criteria of the Ministry of Health of China,the performance evaluation system appropriate for local area was developed.A cross-sectional survey was conducted at 44 community health centers,and data was analyzed using descriptive statistics,correlation coefficients and multi-factor linear regression.Results The average score of total performance of these 44 community health centers was 78.53.The average scoring rate for institution management,public health service,basic medical care service,CTM service,and comprehensive satisfaction was 68.49%,89.09%,63.51%,87.80%,76.32%,respectively.Degree of informationization (0.477),regional location (0.331) and participating in medical consortia(-0.309)had significant impact on the total performance.Degree of informationization(0.302)and pilots for family doctors(0.301)had significant impact on the basic medical service performance.Conclusion There is a tremendous room for performance improvement for community health institutions in Pudong.Regional location and degree of informationization were the most crucial factors affecting the performance,irrelevant to institutional sizes.Proposals were raised for strengthening the construction of informationization,expanding pilots for family doctors,perfecting the mechanism of medical consortia.