Research on the child healthcare system in China from the perspective of equal health benefits: Beijing as the case study.

HEALTH policy; HEALTH services accessibility; ANALYSIS of variance; SOCIAL support; COMMUNITY health services; PATIENT satisfaction; COGNITION; MENTAL health; MEDICAL care costs; HEALTH status indicators; MEDICAL care research; RIGHT to health care; PREVENTIVE health services; CHILD health services; QUESTIONNAIRES; CHILDREN'S health; HEALTH insurance; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LOGISTIC regression analysis; STATISTICAL correlation; MEDICAL needs assessment; HEALTH care rationing; RURAL population

Background: With government's proposal of the Healthy China Strategy, universal health has become the focus of increasing attention in China. As a special group, children's health is the basis and start of the national health. The construction of children's healthcare system should be given the priority. This study applied the concept of health equal benefits and conducted a systematic and in‐depth theoretical and empirical research on the children's healthcare system in Beijing, aiming at proposing relevant countermeasures and suggestions such as constructing the path of children's health care system in China. Methods: This study adopted the way of questionnaire on children's basic information, health status, health service demand, insured situation and system satisfaction and then analysed the children's health, healthcare, satisfaction influence factors and their healthcare needs based on a survey in Beijing China. Methods such as descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and logistic regression are adopted to analyse the correlation between factors affecting children's health. Results: The findings show that overall health of the children in Beijing was better. However, there are still problems such as insufficient resource coverage and incorrect cognition in some groups. Their mental health and support need to be put emphasis on. The popularization of medical insurance policies for urban and rural residents in Beijing needs to be further improved. The burden of seeing a doctor is slightly lower than before, and the contribution to protecting children's health is not strong enough. Conclusions: Through the survey of children in Beijing, it can be seen that there are still some problems existing in the healthcare system of children in China from the perspective of equal benefit. This study draws policy attention to the issues of financing, service contents, targets, service level and the degree of social recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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