Welfare and Self-development of Rural Doctors in China from the Perspective of Social Justice Study

Abstract

Since the beginning of China's new medical reform, the government has issued several policies to promote the development of primary medical care. As an important subject of primary medical care, rural doctors have also received extensive attention on their welfare and self-development. At present, rural doctors in China have problems such as low salaries, imperfect pension security, and hindered development, which is not conducive to the balanced development of the medical industry. Making appropriate adjustments and improvements to the policy of rural doctors is conducive to strengthening the construction of rural medical care and reducing the loss of rural medical talents, thereby promoting social equity and enhancing social stability. Based on these, this paper puts forward the following suggestions. On the one hand, the government should ensure the relative fairness of policies, measure the economic level of various localities, formulate reasonable salary, social security, and promotion systems for rural doctors, rationally use policy tools, and increase supervision over policy implementation. On the other hand, it is necessary to give certain policy preferences to rural areas, issue subsidies to rural doctors, and increase capital investment in rural areas, to reduce the gap between urban and rural areas and promote the balanced development of medical services.