Community healthcare is a very important part of Chinese healthcare system.Despite increased attention on community healthcare in recent years

several challenges still exist in community healthcare studies

such as a lack of attention on humans

merely focusing on the medical aspect

negligence of its dual properties

and limited research methods that cannot provide a deep understanding of the real situation of the subjects.Community healthcare studies not only belong to medical research

but also to the domain of anthropology and sociology.Anthropology is a comprehensive discipline that studies humans and their cultures

and its methodologies such as field research have been adopted by many other disciplines.Based on the current situation of community healthcare studies

it is important to investigate the use of anthropological field research in community healthcare studies

and explore how to introduce humanistic feelings and realistic concerns as well as the inclusive and interdisciplinary properties of anthropological studies into community healthcare studies.It is believed that this would open up a new promising avenue for community healthcare studies.