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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1439346
This article is part of the Research Topic Hospital Management and Healthcare Policy: Financing, Resourcing and Accessibility, Volume II View all 12 articles

Study on the effect of Beijing residents' factors on willingness to primary care initial diagnosis

Provisionally accepted
Yongchuang Gao Yongchuang Gao 1Jianwei Deng Jianwei Deng 2Yuangeng Guo Yuangeng Guo 3Zhennan Wu Zhennan Wu 1Wenhao Deng Wenhao Deng 2*
  • 1 Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
  • 2 Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
  • 3 Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing, China

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    Background: As the foundation and core strength of the healthcare system, the primary care initial diagnosis system has been receiving attention from both the medical and management communities. This study aimed to analyze residents' attitudes toward the system and exploring the influencing factors of the system in Beijing. Methods: Different methods were used to analyze multidimensional data. This study used random sampling method to select 610 Beijing residents to complete the survey, and used purposeful sampling method to recruit 15 participants for individual semistructured interview. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods to carry out statistical analysis. Results: Highly educated and aging population had low willingness to primary care initial diagnosis, 97.7% of chronic disease patients were unwilling to primary care initial diagnosis, different people have different willingness to primary care initial diagnosis. Factors such as level of confidence in the government and health literacy significantly affected residents' willingness.The study suggests that the government needs to groom a good policy image to increase the confidence of the population in the government. Community health service centers need to use Internet technology to do a good job of chronic disease archiving and management to solve the problem of chronic disease management. The government and hospitals need to take measures based on different population, focus on guidance, so as to implement the primary care initial diagnosis policy.

    Keywords: Primary care initial diagnosis, Community health service center, Chronic disease management, Medical seeking behavior, Primary healthcare system, Multiple regression analysis

    Received: 27 May 2024; Accepted: 13 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gao, Deng, Guo, Wu and Deng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Wenhao Deng, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China

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