Mapping the inequalities of medical resource provision in China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7366673
AutoresHaimeng Liu (0000-0003-0390-9140, autor de correspondencia), Chuanglin Fang (0000-0001-6043-8491), Yupeng Fan (0000-0002-7827-113X)
Año2020
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas568-570
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRegional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21681376.2020.1848615
OpenAlexW3109055878
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas1

The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed the shortage of medical resources and the imbalance between cities in China. To better reveal this inequality, this study uses cartograms and half-violin plots to visualize the hospital beds per 10,000 people, medical personnel per 10,000 people and number of 3A hospitals in China. We find that China has made remarkable progress in the primary healthcare system; however, there is still a significant imbalance in the distribution of medical resources, especially the high-quality part. There is a two- to three-fold gap in primary medical care resources between diverse cities, and high-quality medical resources are highly concentrated in cities with high administrative rank and influence

Business · China · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Healthcare system · Inequality · Medical care · Outbreak · Primary care · Primary health care · Quality (philosophy · Resource (disambiguation · Resource allocation · Resource distribution · Computer Science · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine