Health service industry is an important content and weak link of modern service industry. So, what exactly are there? Come and have a look with me!
What are the health service industries?
Health service industry includes medical care, rehabilitation care, fitness and health preservation and many other fields.
background
With the improvement of living standards, people's demand for health services is increasing. Earnestly perform government duties, while effectively ensuring people's demand for basic medical and health services, intensify reforms, fully mobilize social forces, accelerate the development of health service industries with rich contents and various levels, and realize the coordinated development of basic and non-basic health services. This is another important measure to meet the urgent needs of the masses, improve the health quality of the whole people, and ensure and improve people's livelihood. It is also an important starting point for upgrading the service industry, effectively expanding employment, forming new growth points and promoting economic transformation and upgrading.
definition
The State Council's Opinions on Promoting the Development of Health Service Industry defines the industrial scope of health service industry: the connotation and extension of health service industry, aiming at maintaining and promoting people's physical and mental health, mainly includes medical services, health management and promotion, health insurance and related services, involving drugs, medical devices, health products, health food, fitness products and other supporting industries.
Relevant policies
On August 28th, 20xx, Premier the State Council presided over the the State Council executive meeting to study and deploy to promote the development of health service industry.
The meeting held that the key to promoting the development of health service industry is to increase supply, the core is to ensure quality, and the key lies in reform and innovation. First, we must take more measures to develop the health service industry. Relax market access, encourage social capital and overseas capital to invest in the health service industry in various forms according to laws and regulations, and accelerate the implementation of the equal treatment policy of social medical institutions in social security, specialty construction, professional title evaluation, rating evaluation, technology access, etc., so that social forces can become the "new force" of the health service industry. Coordinate the allocation of resources in urban and rural areas and regional health service industries to promote balanced development. Second, we must accelerate the development of healthy old-age care services. Strengthen medical and health security, establish and improve the referral cooperation mechanism between medical institutions and nursing homes and rehabilitation institutions. Develop community and rural health care services for the elderly. Third, we should enrich commercial health insurance products. Support the development of commercial health insurance linked to basic medical insurance, and encourage commercial insurance institutions to carry out medical security services by means of government purchase, so as to make the national "health network" more solid. Fourth, cultivate relevant supporting industries and accelerate the development of key industries such as medical care, medicine, equipment and Chinese medicine. Improve the ability of Chinese medicine medical care service. Expand the ranks of health service talents, encourage social capital to set up vocational colleges, standardize and speed up the training of nurses, elderly nurses, rehabilitation therapists and child masseurs. The meeting called for more policy guidance and support in price, finance, taxation and land use, and simplified the examination and approval procedures of medical institutions in short supply such as geriatrics, children and nursing. It is necessary to strengthen the market supervision of the health service industry, improve the exit mechanism, improve the service quality and safety level, and strive to realize the good expectations of people's health, longevity and happiness.
Health Services
Liu Guoen, a professor at the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, pointed out that health services are different from medical services. The premise of medical service demand is disease, which has small elasticity, strong service particularity and limited market mechanism. But the health service industry is a forward and backward movement centered on medical services. Getting sick is not a prerequisite, but it is necessary to get sick less, get sick slightly and get sick late. The welfare of consumers has increased. This market demand is relatively flexible, and the market mechanism plays a great role.
In some developed countries and regions in the world, health service industry has become an important part of modern service industry, which has produced great social and economic benefits. For example, the health service industry in the United States accounts for more than 17% of its GDP, while other developed countries generally reach about 10%. Comparatively speaking, China is still in its infancy. In addition to the small scale of the industry and insufficient service supply, there are still some problems in China's health service industry, such as imperfect service system, imperfect supervision mechanism, low openness and relatively backward concept. Insufficient supply and waste of resources coexist. The Opinions will greatly change the domestic medical service industry, pharmaceutical industry, health insurance industry and other related industries.