Study On The Demand And Consumption For Medical Services Of Rural Residents In China

It`s the significance to study of medical services that reducing the burden ofmedical is the equal of live-hoods. Successful medical services is based on the activitycooperation of the effective communication between patient and health care provider.To figure out the condition of patients`medical services demand and consumption ishelpful to led the providers to reflect how the services to be effective standing on thepoint of patients. This paper discussed the influence factors of rural residents`demandfor medical services in China, and the main line of the research is to analysis theinfluence factors of demand and the decision-making of medical servicesconsumption and their impaction, and the theoretical basis is theory of consumers`behavior, the purpose of writing is to find out the key to the trouble in medicalservices on the way that combined with the reality actually.Since the founding of the PRC, the degree of medical services for rural residentskeeps on increasing, years of medical innovation also seems to get success. Therelationship between price level and income and amount of medical services`needstell us that, the price elasticity is－0.848, the income elasticity is0.743. The smallerincome and price elasticity indicates that medical services`needs tend to be rigid ofrural residents in China. The perspective of medical services consumptiondecision-making shows that, the demand of medical behavior of rural residents is stillaffected by economic factors in China, it`s as to say that, economic condition is themain psychological burden of rural residents for medical treatment in China.This paper is divided into five parts. The first chapter introduces the writingbackground, significance, research status of this topic and the research methods of thethesis. The second chapter analyzes the theory of this study. The third chapteranalyzes the current situation of rural health services. Chapter IV empirical analysis ofChina’s rural residents’ consumption decisions. Chapter V describes the conclusions of this study and the authors’ policy recommendations.