Women's health management practice in Shanghai Community Health Service Centers
Objective To know about the status quo of women's health care management in the commu-nity health service centers of Shanghai to better meet the needs of women's health management.Methods Self-made questionnaires were used to investigate and analyze the human resources,sites,equipment and outpatient services in 251 community health service centers of Shanghai.Results The effective questionnaire filling rate of community health service centers was 84.46%,women health technicians accounted for 2.55%of health techni-cians in community health service centers,who were less than 6 in each center.Among women's health managers in community health service centers 81.60%were obstetricians and gynecologists with general practice qualifica-tion,followed by general practitioners(15.56%)providing obstetric and gynecological clinic service.The differ-ence in the regional distribution of women's health care clinics in Shanghai was significant(x2=8.713,P<0.05),89.72%in the central urban areas,97.44%in the inner suburbs and 78.79%in the outer suburbs.A-mong the surveyed communities 94.02%had counseling rooms for women's health care and 48.91%had medical examination rooms.And 17.45%of community health service centers had cooperated with other institutions to manage women's health.The co-construction rates of women's health management were 15.89%,33.33%and 10.61%in the central urban area,inner suburban area and outer suburbs,respectively,and the difference was found to be statistically significant(x2=9.156,P<0.05).Conclusion In order to better develop the grassroots network system for women's health care,it is necessary to integrate and manage data through data operation and management technologies,reduce management costs and labor costs,and truly give full play to the role of commu-nity health service centers in women's whole life cycle health services.
Health managementMaternal and child health care networkCommunity health service center