Abstract

Community Health Committee (CHC), an innovative public participation mechanism of grassroots health service management, established a bottom-up communication channel between the public and government to communicate health related problems and opinions, and set up a grassroots community health services supervision system. The rural residents were endowed with opportunities to take part in grassroots health care decision making and management by CHC. CHC changed the top-down model of traditional health management, improved the grassroots medical services, and increased governance capability of local government We introduced the CHC practice in Zhejiang project counties, exhibited the primary effects and experience of this pilot program, and explored new mechanism and model for rural community residents to participate in grassroots health service management Key words: Community Health Committee; Public participation; Governance model

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