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Multi-case Study on the Reform of Public Service Delivery Mode: Medical Services as an Example

Wang Zhe1,3, Ding Zi2   

  1. 1. School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088;
    2. School of Police Administration, People's Public Security University of China, Beijing 100038;
    3. Institute of Economic System and Management, National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing 100035
  • Received:2017-02-16 Online:2018-03-28 Published:2018-03-26

Abstract:

This paper studies the performance of the diversification reform of public service delivery mode and the mechanism of influence. From the theory of public service delivery, we extract three kinds of delivery mode:public-public, public-private and privatization and build an analysis framework of delivery mode-mechanism-service performance. Then we choose 2 cases under each mode from the medical service sector to gather a total of six typical cases. Based on the 6 cases, we analyze their social benefit, economic benefit and internal management improvement and then use the delivery mode as the unit to make an intra-group and inter-group analysis. The study finds that cases in the same mode show the same or different performance, and cases of different mode show similar or different performance results. This result shows that the delivery mode does not directly influence service performance, but plays an indirect role. Service performance is influenced by a variation of factors, such as the government and social capital allowed full play of their respective advantages, reasonable compensation mechanism in place, strict cost control mechanism selection in the mode of core and non-core functions.

Key words: public service, delivery mode, medical service