The Study On Medical Care Conduct Of Rural Residents

Under the background of the prominent rural medical question, this paper by means of the on-the-spot questionnaire investigation on rural residents' medical care conduct, applies relevance theory of social capital and medical sociology, uses quota and qualitative method, analyzes the characteristic of medical care conduct and its influence factors, and takes this as the basis to propose some Countermeasures which can optimize medical surroundings and satisfy the medical demand of rural residents. This paper is divided into seven parts.Part I clarifies that this study is based on the current medical problems in rural areas and the defects of the study on medical care conduct. The study introduces the concept of social capital for medical care conduct, which makes the study go beyond the traditional research perspective on the one hand; on the other hand, the uncertainty of the concept has also caused difficulties to research. Part II elaborates the core concept, content, the train of thought and the method of this study.Part II elaborates the core concept. The one of core concepts is medical care conduct. Medical care conduct is a social action. Social action has to be influenced by individuals and social factors. Therefore, studying to medical conduct must be considered on these two aspects.Part III introduces basic information of this research area and survey sample. The survey area Huaian City C region X town belongs to the northern part of Jiangsu Province, which is relatively backward. X-town economic level in Area C is ranked upstream. Choosing X-town for survey can represent the rural residents' medical condition in Jiangsu Province.Part IV describes this rural community inhabitants' medical care conduct on their choices and on their goal of medical care conduct, and induces the general tendency of their medical care conduct. Few rural residents in the beginning of the disease, decides to seek professional medical help. But when they start to look for, they want to see patient in well-equipped, high medical skill hospitals. Part V analyzes which factor effect medical care conduct. Take personal characteristics, like sex, age, years of schooling, income, family authority, state of body, individual medical insurance condition, healthy conception etc as the personal variables. Take medical care system and rural residents' interpersonal network as the social influence variables. And then analyzes the intrinsic influence variables and the social influence variables how to affect the rural residents' medical care conduct. Rural residents consider their own economic conditions, medical price level, convenience, medical skill to choose medical institutions. Rural residents' medical care conduct aims at finding cheap, convenient and high quality medical services to restore health.Part VI proposes the countermeasure to optimize rural residents' medical surroundings, on the basis of the factors which affect their care conduct. In the countermeasure, this paper emphatically analyzes how to build and perfect rural medical care system, and how to bring the informal system - rural residents' interpersonal network into positive role.Part VII, in the front anglicizing foundation, obtains conclusions of this study. Optimizing rural residents' medical surroundings and satisfying their medical demand require perfecting the rural medical care system itself and supplementing the formal medical system by building social capital of medical care. But in Chinese rural society, social capital of relationship type mainly exists as private capital. This paper though proposes the ways to transform it into the public capital, but this is one kind of theoretically attempt after all, certainly not necessarily has the practicality.