What is a health policy?
Health policy belongs to the category of public policy, which refers to the general name of strategies, tactics, objectives and indicators, countermeasures and measures for the development of health undertakings formulated and implemented by the government or authoritative institutions based on public health.
Health policy aims at improving people's health level, and the collection, distribution, utilization and evaluation of social health resources are determined by government decrees, regulations, provisions, plans, programs, measures and projects.
Characteristics of health policy:
1, * * * same and different.
2. Department and society.
3. Compulsory and education.
4. Timeliness and stability.
Functions of health policy:
1, boot function:
This is the most important function of health policy. Health policy effectively unifies complex, changeable, conflicting and aimless behaviors in the development of health undertakings into clear development goals and develops in an orderly manner according to the will of health policy makers.
2. Coordination function:
On the one hand, due to the different values and behavioral motives of health departments, health workers and health service objects at all levels, it is possible to coordinate things only by taking health policy as the code of conduct; On the other hand, health care needs the coordination of government departments and all aspects of society in order to develop steadily.
For example, medical expenses need the participation of health, food and drug supervision, price, labor and social security to be effectively controlled.
3. Control function:
First of all, the goal of health policy determines the content of health work, and health work is always controlled with the goal of health policy as the center. Secondly, the clearer, more detailed and comprehensive the work plan around the health policy objectives, the better the control effect of achieving the objectives.
The ongoing health reform in China relies on the control of a series of health policies and strategies to ensure the healthy development of the reform.
4. Distribution function:
The purpose of the government's health policy is to improve the efficiency of the use of health resources and reflect the fairness of health services. The distribution function of health policy should solve every problem: to whom, how and what is the best distribution.
Health resources are limited, and it is impossible to meet everyone's needs at any time. Every interest group wants to get as much benefit as possible from limited resources, which will inevitably lead to conflicts of interest, so health policies are needed to adjust the interests of all parties.