title: [Development of health service in Hunan Province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the health service development in Hunan Province, and to find out the advantages and disadvantages, and to make tentative specific suggestions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Comparison was made in Yunnan, Hunan, and Zhejiang Provinces in 4 major areas: health institutions, personnels, facilities, and funding.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall health service of Hunan Province was good: The health resources increased, the allocations were reasonable, and the health expenditure decreased. Some problems appeared, such as backward primary health, shortage of medical talents, inefficient use of hospital beds, deducted government investment, increased business income, and large urban-rural gap.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is urgent need to further develop health institutions and increase personnels, particularly improving the primary health care and making use of traditional Chinese medicine; improving the management of hospital beds to increase efficiency, increasing financial support to reduce the patients' burden, and ensuring the need of rural health care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Gong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Zhenqiu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yazhou
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Youzhe
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D012423:Rural Health / Q000191:economics