Main Responsibilities
1. Implement health and wellness policies, laws, and regulations issued by higher authorities. Organize enforcement of laws, policies, and plans for medical and health development. Coordinate regional health resource planning and allocation, draft and execute regional health development plans, and promote equal, accessible, and inclusive basic public health services extended to grassroots levels.
2. Lead and promote deep reforms in the healthcare system, including public hospital reforms. Improve hospital management systems and implement policy measures to diversify both the providers and delivery models of public health services.
3. Organize major disease prevention and control programs and respond to serious public health hazards. Oversee immunization campaigns. Manage public health emergencies, guiding prevention, control, and medical rescue efforts.
4. Coordinate policies to address population aging, advance the development of the elderly health service system, and promote the integration of medical and elderly care.
5. Implement the essential medicines system at the national, provincial, and municipal levels.
6. Oversee public health supervision and management within the scope of responsibilities, including occupational health, radiation health, environmental health, school health, public place hygiene, and drinking water safety. Supervise infectious disease prevention and control, and optimize the comprehensive health supervision system. Develop service networks for disease prevention and control, health education, maternal and child health, mental health, emergency treatment, health supervision, and family planning. Organize patriotic health campaigns.
7. Oversee the implementation of regulations for medical institutions and the healthcare service industry. Establish medical service evaluation and supervision frameworks.
8. Oversee family planning management and services, and conduct population monitoring and early warning. Develop policy recommendations related to population and family development, and guide the work of the district family planning association.
9. Guide grassroots healthcare services and support community medical institutions, maternal and child health services, and general practitioner teams. Enhance basic health service capabilities and promote health and medical technology innovation.
10. Provide healthcare services for cadres and ensure medical support for major meetings and events.
11. Formulate and implement district-wide medium- and long-term development plans for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Oversee the preservation and innovation of TCM, and promote the integration of TCM and Western medicine.
12. Carry out exchanges, cooperation, publicity, and foreign aid in the health sector; organize continuing medical education.
13. Implement talent development strategies to build a highly qualified health workforce.
14. Oversee workplace safety in the health sector, and manage health emergency response and medical rescue efforts related to workplace safety incidents.
15. Complete other tasks assigned by the district Party committee, district government, and higher authorities.
16. Functional transformation: Embrace the “Big Health” concept and implement the Healthy China strategy. Driven by reforms and innovations, the district health bureau should shift focus toward health promotion and prevention, strengthen primary care, and reform health service models toward people-centered, comprehensive, full-cycle care. Improve service quality, advance regulatory system reform, and coordinate healthcare system reforms.
17. Division of responsibilities with district civil affairs bureau: the health bureau develops policies on population aging and the integration of medical and elderly care. It coordinates elderly service development, including disease prevention, medical care, psychological health, welfare, and assistance for vulnerable elderly groups.