Quantitative Evaluation of Provincial Medical Insurance Policies Specially Supporting the Development of TCM in China
Objective:To quantitatively evaluate 26 provincial medical insurance policies specially supporting the development of TCM in China and put forward countermeasures and suggestions to improve the special policy system,promote the inheritance and innovative development of TCM,and contribute to the building of a healthy China.Methods:Text mining and policy model consis-tency(PMC)index model were employed to quantitatively evaluate and analyze the text of provincial medical insurance policies specially supporting the development of TCM.Results:The average PMC index of the provincial medical insurance policies special-ly supporting the development of TCM in China was 6.94.The 26 policies included 16 policies rated as excellent and 10 policies rated as acceptable.There were no bad or perfect policies.According to the average value of each first-level index,the policies had high scores in terms of policy content,policy objectives,and policy tools and low scores in terms of the time effectiveness,guaran-tees and incentives,publication organizations and so on.Conclusion:The provincial medical insurance policies specifically support-ing the development of TCM in China remain to be improved.It is suggested that we should change the mode of thinking,strengthen the use of economic incentives and the communication and cooperation among departments,attach importance to the design of evalu-ation programs for policy implementation in stages,and optimize the policies and measures at all levels.
Medical insuranceTCMPolicy modeling consistency index modelPolicy designQuantitative evaluationLocal policyText miningIndex system