Development Approaches to Community-based Health Care Services in the Perspective of Matching Supply and Demand
Facing the ongoing aging population with the cases of disability and chronic diseases,the demand for health care services for the aged is becoming increasingly urgent.Providing multi-level and multi-faceted community-based health care services has much significance in promoting the high-quality development of healthy aging and health care services.Based on the disease expansion/com-pression hypothesis and the hierarchy of needs theory in connection with the development of community-based health care services,this paper analyzes the needs of different types of elderly people for health care services,the current supply of community-based health care services,the imbalance between supply and demand of community-based health care services,and the causes for this imbalance,and then discusses the development approaches to community-based health care services in order to provide a theoretical basis and policy-making reference for optimizing community-based health care services and promoting their high-quality development.
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