Measurement of regional demand for health resources and its spatio-temporal pattern in China
AO Rongjun1,2， TANG Hui1,2,3， YIERFANJIANG Aihemaitijiang 1,2， ZHAO Rui1,2， TAN Shuang1,2， QIANG Tingting1,2
(1.Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation of Hubei Province， Wuhan 430079， China； 2.College of Urban and Environmental Sciences， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079， China；3.College of Architecture and Urban Planning， Hunan City University， Yiyang， Hunan 413000， China)
Abstract：Measuring regional health resource demand is a prerequisite for implementing demand-oriented spatial allocation of health resources. Taking the determinants of regional demand for health resources and the spatial interaction into account， the index of demand for health resources is constructed to analyze the distribution of health resources demand among the prefecture-level districts in China and its change from 2000 to 2010. The main results are as follows. The spatial distribution of health resources demand presents “high-low-high” overall pattern from western to eastern China. Mainly due to the high healthcare need of the population， the prefectures with medium-and-high demand for health resources are continuously distributed in the western area including Qinghai， Tibet， Xinjiang and western Sichuan， forming a cluster zone of prefectures with high demand for health resources in Qinghai-Tibet area and a hotspot zone of health resources demand in western China with middle Tibet region as the core. Mainly due to the high accessibility to health services， the prefectures with medium-and-high demand for health resources are concentrated along the east coast， forming cluster belts of prefectures with high demand for health resources in the Bohai Rim， the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta and a hotspot zone of health resources demand in eastern China with Jiangsu， Shanghai and Zhejiang as the core. Due to the low healthcare need and the low accessibility to health services， the prefectures with low demand for health resources are continually distributed in the middle parts of China， among which some provincial capitals， such as Guangzhou， Wuhan and Chengdu， as well as northern Henan are medium-and-high demand areas with high accessibility to health services. Sichuan， Yunnan， Guangxi and Guizhou are also medium-and-high demand areas because of their high healthcare need. Low demand for health resources mainly cluster in Gansu， Sichuan， Shaanxi， Shanxi， Henan， Hubei and Hunan while Gansu， Shaanxi， Hubei， Hunan and Jiangxi are the core of cold spots of health resources demand.
敖荣军,汤 慧,伊尔凡江·艾合买提江,赵 芮,谭 爽,强婷婷,. 中国地市卫生资源需求测度及其时空格局研究[J]. 华中师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2021, 55(5): 908-918.
AO Rongjun,TANG Hui,YIERFANJIANG Aihemaitijiang,ZHAO Rui,TAN Shuang,QIANG Tingting,. Measurement of regional demand for health resources and its spatio-temporal pattern in China. journal1, 2021, 55(5): 908-918.
2021, Vol. 55 
