The Financing and Components of Recurrent Health Expenses in Primary Healthcare Institutions in Beijing-based on SHA2011

Background Primary healthcare institutions are the key link in hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, and national policies emphasize the need to deepen the "strong grassroots" reform and play its role as the "bottom of the net". Objective To understand the development and resource utilization of primary healthcare services in Beijing, and provide policy suggestions for optimizing the resource allocation of primary healthcare institutions in the next step. Methods Based on SHA2011, a combined method of stratified and simple random sampling was used to select a total of 29 medical and health institutions. A database was formed based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) coding to complete the accounting of recurrent health expenses in Beijing. The data concerning Beijing health expenses were derived from China Health Statistics Yearbook, Beijing Health Statistics Yearbook, Beijing Municipal Government Healthcare Subsidies Monitoring System, Beijing Public Health Information Center, and so on.