What follows are some steps taken by Nanjing City in conducting community health care: changing traditional concepts so as to meet the needs of the masses, strengthening work in organization and leadership so as to draw up good plans, rationally utilizing health resources so as to set up service networks, and conducting training of general medical practitioners and exploring two way referrals so as to perfect community health care. The authors hold that at present there are some problems needing prompt solution in community health care and thus put forward the following suggestions: striving for state and government support, formulating relevant supporting policies on the conduction of community health care, setting up a corresponding system of rational compensation, strengthening the cultivation of general medical practitioners, and standardizing the management of community health care.
