Empirical Spatial Analysis on Fairness of Health Resource Allocation

Abstract

The paper aims to establish the method to evaluate the demographic fairness,regional fairness and comprehensive situation of health resource allocation and carry out the empirical analysis. With the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method. According to the principle of the Gini coefficient, we established regionalized variables to evaluate demographic fairness and regional fairness of health resource allocation and performed the spatial analysis and evaluation with related spatial analysis methods and ArcGIS software. We analyzed and evaluated the demographic fairness, regional fairness and comprehensive situation of the allocation of health resources in Shandong Province in 2014. The demographic fairness was optimal in Zibo, Dongying, and Weihai and the regional fairness was optimal in Zibo and Jinan. The overall health resource allocation in Shandong Province is in the radial pattern with two centers of Zibo and Jinan. Allocation of health resources is a multidimensional comprehensive problem which is closely related to various factors, such as economy, population, and regional development space. Compared with the conventional analysis methods, the combination of spatial analysis methods and ArcGIS software can reveal the advantages and disadvantages of health resource allocation.