Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to suggest the resource allocation model for achieving equity of health at provincial level. The equity is defined as an equality of input for equal need, by studying only recurrent budget of fiscal year 1992 of health service facilities under the responsible of the Public Health Ministry. This research uses secondary data of fiscal year 1990 by analysing both descriptive method and stepwised multiple regression equation method. This research uses standardized mortality ratio as an indicator of health need of people in each province. The results of the study show three types of budgets. The first is the model to allocate nonlabour recurrent budget for health service facilities at tumbol, district and provincial level. The second model is for nonlabour recurrent budget, including the welfare budget for low-income people and the aged, plus the fund form Family Health Division and General Communicable Disease Division. And the third model is for allocating recurrent budget of health service facilities at tumbol, district and provincial level, including salaries of health personnel and the welfare budget for the low-income and the aged plus the fund form Family Health Division and General Communicable Disease Division. The first and the second models show that outputs (lengths of stay, number of out-patients), the population adjusted by standardized mortality ratio, and the average income of each province are factors playing vital roles for the budget allocation. In the third case, the most significant factor is the number of beds, the other factors play vital role in the same level as the first and the second case. Because the factors playing vital roles in the budget allocation, are the same as the existing budget allocation, only standardized mortality ratio is introduced as a factor expressing demand. When comparing the results from the models and the existing budget allocation, there are discrepancies both in amount of budget allocation to the provinces and budget per head in a certain number of provinces. But comparing the budget per head to each province as against the average per capita budget, if confirms that the directions of differences are consistent.