A Study On Health Effects Of Essential Pharmaceutical Policy

Medical and health care is a major livelihood issue related to people’s health and well-being.Health is the first production factor,the cornerstone of everyone’s life,and the fundamental goal of all medical and health policy.People can only meet the needs of health through indirect means,receiving medical services is one of the most important ways.Drugs are an important part of people’s treatment of disease and maintain their health condition.With economic developed rapidly,the development of health care is not optimistic."Difficult to see a doctor" and "expensive" is the frequently current phenomenon.The prevalence rate of chronic disease is so high that become a serious threat to people’s health and brought heavy burden to the patients,especially to the low income patients.The policy’s target goal is to enhance the quality of life,protect the health,safety and welfare of the low income patients.Facing such a severe situation,the eighteen report of the party clearly pointed out that health is an inevitable requirement to promote the all-round development of human beings,and to improve people’s health is an important aspect of China’s development of socialist.The goal is to improve the basic drug accessibility,affordability,to ensure drug quality,promote the rational use of drugs to meet the basic needs of people especially the low-income patients,lighten their burden and improve the present situation and the health inequality,improve people’s health level,promote the realization of the policy.While most of the current study is related to the basic drug’s accessibility,affordability,rational usage and most of them stay in the descriptive statistical analysis level,our study for the first time from the perspective of health and health effects to analysis the essential drug system,as well as the health inequality condition.The main contents of this paper are as follows: firstly,according to CFPS’s2010,2012 and 2014 survey data,analysis the establishment of the drug system at the present situation and the change of Chinese residents’ health and health equity.Secondly,we empirically investigated whether the policy improved the health status of patients with chronic diseases,such as chronic diseases,and evaluated the health performance of the essential drug system through the ordered probit method.And the regression analysis from the overall and different income levels,combined with the analysis of the health effects of the basic drug system from two aspects ofcoefficient and the marginal effect,changes of policy effects of different income levels and health inequality condition.Third,through the investigation of empirical research,we find some problems in the implementation process of the basic drug system,then put forward the policy recommendations to provide a theoretical basis for perfecting the essential drug system policy.Based on the panel data of three years of CFPS,the health effects of the basic drug system were dynamically tracked and analyzed.This paper obtains the following conclusions: the essential drug system lowered the self-rated health level of the residents,and the effect was not significant.Further we analysis the health effects among different income groups,find that the essential drug system worked in the targeted object significantly,only have a significant impact on the lowest income groups,the other groups were not significantly affected.However the policy did not obtain the desired effect,the health effects of low income groups is significantly negative and the degree of inequality deteriorate even further.