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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1551235
Quality Evaluation of the Spatial Characteristics of Basic Public Services: A Case Study of People with Disabilities in China Between 2012 and 2021
Provisionally accepted- School of Management, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, China
Under the social development goal of realising common wealth, scientific evaluation and revealing the changing law of the quality of basic public services for people with disabilities is of great significance in promoting the sustainable and healthy development of the cause of people with disabilities. This paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system of the quality of basic public services for people with disabilities including 20 indicators in 5 dimensions of rehabilitation, education, facilities, culture and sports, and law, and applies the entropy value method and Dagum's Gini coefficient to measure and compare the quality of basic public services for people with disabilities at the national, regional, and provincial levels in the period of 2012-2021. The results show that: (1) the quality of basic public services for persons with disabilities in China has been steadily improving since 2012, but the overall differences have a tendency to gradually widen, and such differences mainly come from the contribution of inter-regional differences, especially the eastern-western differences. (2) With the exception of the Northeast, the quality index of basic public services for persons with disabilities in the three major regions has been on an upward trend, with the western region showing the fastest rate of improvement. The quality of basic public services for persons with disabilities is highest in the East, but intra-regional differences are the greatest. (3) There are significant spatial differences in the quality of different types of basic public services, with high-scoring provinces located mainly in economically developed areas along the eastern coast, and most provinces in the central and western parts of the country suffering from shortcomings in such dimensions as rehabilitation, education, and cultural and sports services. The quality of each type of service is mostly at a lower level, with lower matching. Suggestions have been made for improving the quality of basic public services for persons with disabilities in terms of strengthening the integration with social needs and making up for shortcomings in regional development.
Keywords: People with disabilities, basic public services, quality evaluation, Spatial characteristics, China
Received: 03 Jan 2025; Accepted: 10 Mar 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Jiapei Guo, School of Management, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, China
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