Spatial Pattern and Spatial Heterogeneity of Chinese Elite Hospitals: A Country-Level Analysis. 2021

Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.

Elite hospitals represent the highest level of Chinese hospitals in medical service and management, medical quality and safety, technical level and efficiency, which are also one of the important indicators reflecting high-quality medical resources in the region, and their spatial allocation is directly related to the fairness of health resource allocation. We explored the allocation pattern of high-quality resources and its influencing factors in the development of China's health system using geographic weighted regression (GWR), Multi-scale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR), GWR and MGWR with Spatial Autocorrelation(GWR-SAR and MGWR-SAR), spatial lag model (SLM), and spatial error model (SEM). The results of OLS regression showed that city level, number of medical colleges, urbanization rate, permanent population and GDP per capita were its significant variables. And spatial auto-correlation of elite hospitals in China is of great significance. Further, its spatial agglomeration phenomenon was confirmed through SLM and SEM. Among them, the city level is the most important factor affecting the spatial allocation of elite hospitals in China. Its action intensity shows a solid and weak mosaic trend in the Middle East, relatively concentrated in some areas with medium intensity and concentrated in the West China. Obviously, China's elite hospitals are unevenly distributed and have evident spatial heterogeneity. Therefore, we suggest that we should pay attention to the spatial governance of high-quality medical resources, attract medical elites in the region, increase investment in medical education in the scarce areas of elite hospitals and develop tele-medicine service.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002681 China A country spanning from central Asia to the Pacific Ocean. Inner Mongolia,Manchuria,People's Republic of China,Sinkiang,Mainland China
D002947 Cities A large or important municipality of a country, usually a major metropolitan center. Municipalities,Towns
D006761 Hospitals Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients. Hospital
D000068916 Spatial Regression Methods used to take into account and incorporate spatial autocorrelation and regional variation into regression analysis models of data that has spatial dependency, and also to provide information on the spatial relationships among the variables. Geographically Weighted Regression,Geographically Weighted Regressions,Regression, Geographically Weighted,Regression, Spatial,Regressions, Geographically Weighted,Regressions, Spatial,Spatial Regressions,Weighted Regression, Geographically,Weighted Regressions, Geographically
D014507 Urbanization The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. Central City,Central Cities,Cities, Central,City, Central,Urbanizations

Related Publications

Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
March 1991, Research quarterly for exercise and sport,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
November 2013, The European respiratory journal,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
April 2022, Environmental monitoring and assessment,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
April 2002, Ying yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of applied ecology,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
May 2018, Entropy (Basel, Switzerland),
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
December 2020, Accident; analysis and prevention,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
June 1995, Science (New York, N.Y.),
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
February 2010, Oecologia,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
May 2005, Medicine and science in sports and exercise,
Baoguo Shi, and Yingteng Fu, and Xiaodan Bai, and Xiyu Zhang, and Ji Zheng, and Yuping Wang, and Ye Li, and Lijun Zhang
May 2011, BMC public health,
Copied contents to your clipboard!