Abstract
A response to the commentary entitled: "Addressing the shortage of health professionals in rural China: issues and progress".
Highlights
When patients go to medical institutions in an orderly fashion, can we see the hope of breaking the kan bing nan, kan bing gui [2]
The central Chinese government has launched a series of policies to deal with the shortage of Human Resource (HR) in rural areas
The willingness of physicians to flow from urban to rural areas are affected by lots of factors including financial incentives, career development, and living conditions [5,6,7,8]
Summary
The central Chinese government has launched a series of policies to deal with the shortage of HRs in rural areas. It is not the time to assess their effectiveness, these measurements are certain to improve the capacity of Community Health Service (CHS) institutions. CHS institutions still face many problems to attract the welltrained GPs. These problems will damage the effects of the above policies, and even aggravate the mal-distribution gap in HRs between urban and rural areas.
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