Interpretation of how premium 10.4 billion? Ensure funding for public health services per capita 15 yuan

Interview by: Li Li-hui interpret our reporter by: the Ministry of Finance of the responsible person

At 10:03 on July 12, 2009 Source: People - "People's Daily"

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Everyone to enjoy the protection of basic public health services, etc.

Conditions can increase the local services

In 2009 the central finance allocated grant funding of basic public health services 10.4 billion to support the project in accordance with the provisions of free for all urban and rural residents to provide basic public health services, indicates that China's gradual equalization of basic public health services of a full open.

What is the equalization of basic public health services? Each People's Republic of China citizens, regardless of their gender, age, race, place of residence, occupation, income level, can have equal access to services, mainly in three aspects: First, the coverage of basic public health services to all residents; and secondly, to implement and increasing the state's major public health projects; Third, public health agencies to strengthen the professional capacity building.

And increase the implementation of major public health projects, to increase efforts to prevent and control major infectious diseases. The continued implementation of AIDS, tuberculosis and other major disease control, national immunization programs, maternal hospital delivery in rural areas and other major public health projects, and a gradual increase in the state's major public health projects.

Professional public health agencies to strengthen capacity-building to enable public health agencies to better provide public health services for the masses. Disease prevention and control institutions of public health agencies and other professional development and construction expenses, personnel expenses, utility expenses and operational expenses of the full arrangements by the Government, in accordance with the provisions of services revenue to achieve financial account or incorporated into the budget management.

The official said that the gradual promotion of equality of basic public health services, the objective is to protect the urban and rural residents access to the most basic, the most effective public health services, urban and rural residents to narrow the gap between the basic public health services so that residents may not be disease and less disease . According to medical reform plan, the development of a unified national basic public health services projects, according to the project free of charge to the provision of urban and rural residents. Around the conditional, but also projects in the national unity based on the increase in services.

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Services to all urban and rural areas by urban residents

Grants the central and western standards to 15 yuan per capita

Implementation of health reform proposals, in 2009 the per capita funding for public health service standards are not less than 15 yuan in 2011 to not less than 20 million, included in the budget requirements, the central government transfer payments in accordance with certain criteria to be difficult for the region支持.

According to the arrangements, the equalization of basic public health services to achieve two major changes: changes in clients from urban and rural residents as a whole; the central budget from the central and western areas, respectively, 3 yuan per capita, 4 million special grant funding standard arrangement change according to the standard 15 yuan per capita, in the west, central and eastern parts of the proportion of subsidy for different grants.

The ratio of specific support for: the current difficult financial situation of the western region, the central government by 80 percent the proportion of grants, subsidies per capita standard of 12 yuan; the central region by 60 percent the proportion of grants, subsidies standard 9 yuan per capita; on the eastern part of Fujian, Shandong, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and six provinces of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, the three municipalities, according to financial resources for each of the proportion of subsidy for different grants. Special central financial transfer payment, to carry out essential public health services all over is a strong support.

Earlier this year, the state has an early start of six major public health services, including the gradual popularization of rural women in hospital delivery; for 8-15 year-old hepatitis B vaccination of the population; for the rural women of childbearing age folic acid free premium services; for the poor free to carry out the cataract patients复明手术;农村改水lavatories through the implementation of projects to improve rural health care environment, communicable diseases; but also for rural women of early breast cancer and cervical cancer screening, such as.

6 In support of this project start-up public health services, the central government has allocated 25.3 billion in subsidies. Among them, the hepatitis B vaccine catch-up arrangements for the central budget by 1.7 billion, coal-burning fluorosis funding arrangements for the elimination of 3.5 billion, arranged folic acid supplement for pregnant women in rural areas by 1.6 billion, the sight of cataract patients was 1.6 billion, to drinking water and lavatories is 16.1 billion yuan, the two women's cancer screening is 080 million yuan.