The research of medical expenditure in China

Abstract

Medical expenditure has a rapid growth recently in China, and it is difficult to control the medical expenditure. Compared with the other countries, the paper discusses some factors which result the rapid increase of medical costs in China, including hygienic resource, the quantity and quality of practitioner, management system and inhabitant sanitary habit. Then, the paper gives some countermeasures and suggestions to control the medical expenditure in China, such as increasing government investment, improving the quantity and quality of hygienic technician, ameliorating social sanitary service system, reforming the medical management system and strengthening the education of resident sanitary habit. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.