The medical care insurance system has been adopted in rural areas in 1988, since then, the utilization of medical care services has increased rapidly in rural areas.
The government has restructured the 15 health centers, which are located in remote rural areas and these 15 health centers were strengthen to, provide the .curative-care to-the residents in order to meet the curative care demand of the residents. Besides the reorganization of the health centers, the government has implemented the oriental medical care demonstration project at the health center in a designated rural areas.
This study was aimed to analyze the utilization and expenses of medical and oriental medical care services in a designated rural areas.
Number of annual visits of residents to health centers in 1991 showed slightly decreased compared with that in 1989. However number of annual visits to the hospitalized health centers was an increase of 493 % -643 %.Regarding the coverage of purgative care for the residents in rural areas, the hospitalized health centers are functioning more effective than that of health center.
Expenses per case of medical care rendered by health center was lower than that of oriental medical care, while the expenses of the medical care was quite higher than that of oriental medical care in the hospitalized health centers.
According to the above mentioned study results, the hospitalized health centers were more effective and suitable to provide a curative care to the residents than the health centers, and also the oriental medical care could be needed to be provided by public health network in the near future.
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