Study on the relationship between the richness and utilization efficiency of health manpower resources

Abstract

This paper studies whether there is a correlation between the richness of health manpower resource and the utilization efficiency of health resources. The number of health workers per thousand people was used to measure the richness of health manpower resources, and the BCC model of data envelopment analysis was used to calculate the relative health resource utilization efficiency of all cities in Hubei in 2019.To explore the correlation between the richness of health manpower resources and the utilization efficiency of health resources clearly, the correlation test was carried out. The results showed that the utilization efficiency of health resources was negatively correlated with the richness of health human resources in 15 cities except Wuhan, the provincial capital city, and Shennongjia. Therefore, it is considered that the richness of health manpower resources has an impact on the utilization efficiency of health resources, which may form a “resource curse”, that is, the richness of resources may lead to the inefficient utilization of resources. It is suggested that the government should introduce policies to control the number of health workers in cities with low utilization efficiency and high resource abundance, encourage medical graduates to find jobs in cities which equipped with less health workers and high utilization, guarantee the health manpower in areas with less health workers, and promote the harmonious and balanced development of the whole province.