1, produced in different ways.
The demand for health services is the amount of health services that people are willing and able to consume at a certain price level in a certain period of time from the perspective of economy and values.
Demand mainly depends on residents' own health status, which is based on the gap between people's actual health status and "ideal health status", and the objective requirements for services such as prevention, health care, medical treatment and rehabilitation, including personal perception needs and judgment needs of medical and health professionals.
2. Different consumption levels
Health demand also refers to patients, patients and the extent to which patients actually receive health services, that is, patients are not only willing but also able to receive health services (such as financial ability).
The demand for health services is restricted by many factors, such as service price, personal income, health knowledge and health inclusive policy. Indicators reflecting health service demand include: health education participation rate, medical treatment rate, non-medical treatment rate, hospitalization rate and non-hospitalization rate.
3. Different expressions
The demand for health services reflects the public's hopes, demands and suggestions for government health, environmental protection and other relevant departments and institutions. The public's voice, reflection and concern for improving social health work are often seen and heard in newspapers, magazines and radio and television programs.
Health service demand is to collect residents' health service demand in a specially organized health inquiry survey. For example, among the opinions collected in a sampling survey of rural health services, 43% called for reducing medical expenses, and 1 1% hoped to increase medical equipment and improve technical level.
However, 6% people demand to send high-level medical and health personnel to rural areas, and 4% people hope that the health department will improve its service attitude, which reflects that rural residents want to get economic, effective and high-quality medical and health services.
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The demand for health services is transformed from need. Only by transforming people's health service needs into needs can health resources be utilized to meet the needs. However, in real life, due to various subjective and objective reasons, not all people's needs are transformed into needs.
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The characteristics of health service demand are as follows:
1. Consumers lack information.
Due to the complexity of the health service industry, it is difficult for health service consumers to make correct judgments on the quantity and quality of health services in advance, like consumers of other commodities. Therefore, it is often blind when using health services. First of all, consumers are not sure what kind of health services they need after getting sick.
They usually receive various tests and medicines under the arrangement of doctors. As for whether these tests and drugs are necessary, it is difficult for consumers to make a correct judgment, that is, they must rely on providers when receiving health services; Second, consumption.
There is also a lack of understanding of the price level of health services, and they often accept services without knowing the exact price; Third, consumers are uncertain about the quality and effect of using health services. In these senses, there is obvious information asymmetry between health service providers and consumers, and consumers do not have enough information to judge and make their own consumption choices.
2. The passivity of health service demand
Because consumers lack knowledge of health care services, the perceived demand for health care services is always limited. Only after the examination and approval of doctors can patients use health services correctly and effectively. There is a certain gap between patients' desire for medical treatment and doctors' judgment on the quality and quantity of health services. The demand for health services is mainly determined by doctors, and consumers are in an obvious passive state in using health services.
The reason why patients are dominated by doctors is not only because of the lack of medical knowledge, but more importantly, consumers often have the psychology of asking for help when they go to the hospital for medical treatment due to illness. Because doctors can help patients relieve pain and turn the corner, there is a relationship between rescue and being rescued, and there is no equal exchange relationship between providers and recipients of health services.
3. Externality of health service utilization benefit
The utilization of health care services is different from the consumption of other goods or services. When consumers buy general commodities and consume them, the benefits brought by such commodities are only enjoyed by consumers themselves. The consumption of health services is different, such as the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Vaccination of susceptible people is equivalent to cutting off the route of transmission. Then, the beneficiaries are not only individuals who are vaccinated, but also those who come into contact with them.
In other words, the utilization of health services has achieved positive benefits outside consumers, reflecting the externality of health service utilization. In this case, if consumers are not aware of the seriousness of the disease or unable to pay, resulting in insufficient demand for health services, the government and society have the responsibility to take certain measures to ensure that they get certain and necessary health services to protect the health of others.
4. Uncertainty of health service demand
If the demand for health services can be reflected by the prevalence rate or medical treatment rate, then the demand level of health services for a certain population can be predicted. But it is difficult to predict who will get sick and use health services. Because whether an individual is sick or not is an accidental event, there is uncertainty in the demand for health services.
5. Multiple sources of health service payment.
Due to the particularity of health service, the field of health service has become the object of medical insurance, social assistance, enterprise and government intervention. These interventions transfer some people's income to health service consumers, thus changing the consumption behavior of health service consumers, and the quantity and quality of health services have also changed.