Alshahrani Hassan, Al-Matrafi Naif, Al-Qahtani Nujud, Taliby Rajaa, Hassanein Muna, Al-Rowilly Ibtehaj
General Directorate of Health Affairs, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia.
Mater Sociomed. 2023 Sep;35(3):172-177. doi: 10.5455/msm.2023.35.172-177.
Mapping exercises are important to inform development of interventions aiming to enhance private sector's contribution towards achieving health systems objectives.
To map size, types, and distribution of private health institutions, and to identify the services they offer, and their alignment with Ministry of Health priorities.
A cross-sectional study targeted licensed, for-profit private health institutions in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia. Secondary data were collected from Department of Private Health Institutions in Riyadh and the Ministry of Health Year Statistical Book. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyze the collected data.
Private hospitals increased from 40 (2017) to 46 (2021), with private sector hospital beds rising from 5,426 (2017) to 6,339 (2021). Pharmaceutical institutions comprised 55.4% of private health institutions, followed by polyclinics (23%) and supportive health services centers (17.1%). Laboratories, hospitals, and clinics represented 2%, 1%, and 0.5% of private health institutions respectively. Ambulance and radiology service centers were least available private health institutions at 0.1%. Home healthcare, remote care, telemedicine, family medicine, and long-term care were offered by 1.3%, 0.5%, 0.4%, and 0.1% of private health institutions respectively. Private hospitals accounted for 41.4% of total hospitals and private hospitals beds constituted 30.9% of Riyadh's total, with an average of 137.8 beds per hospital. Around 82% of private health institutions were in Riyadh city, with around 18% in peripheral provinces.
Private healthcare sector has witnessed substantial growth, primarily influenced by supply rather than demand dynamics. Incentives are essential to promote investment in Ministry of Health priorities.
绘制地图活动对于为旨在增强私营部门对实现卫生系统目标贡献的干预措施的制定提供信息很重要。
绘制私营卫生机构的规模、类型和分布，确定它们提供的服务以及它们与卫生部优先事项的一致性。
一项横断面研究针对沙特阿拉伯利雅得地区有执照的营利性私营卫生机构。从利雅得私营卫生机构部门和卫生部年度统计书中收集二手数据。采用描述性统计分析收集到的数据。
私立医院从2017年的40家增加到2021年的46家，私营部门医院床位从2017年的5426张增加到2021年的6339张。制药机构占私营卫生机构的55.4%，其次是综合诊所（23%）和支持性卫生服务中心（17.1%）。实验室、医院和诊所分别占私营卫生机构的2%、1%和0.5%。救护车和放射服务中心是最稀缺的私营卫生机构，占0.1%。分别有1.3%、0.5%、0.4%和0.1%的私营卫生机构提供家庭医疗、远程护理、远程医疗、家庭医学和长期护理服务。私立医院占医院总数的41.4%，私立医院床位占利雅得总数的30.9%，平均每家医院有137.8张床位。约82%的私营卫生机构位于利雅得市，约18%位于周边省份。
私营医疗部门经历了大幅增长，主要受供应而非需求动态的影响。激励措施对于促进对卫生部优先事项的投资至关重要。
