Determinants on aged population’s health expenditures in China
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2015.07.011
- VernacularTitle:我国老年人医疗卫生支出影响因素研究
- Author:
Aixia MA
;
Yangyang XU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Aged population;
Health expenditure;
Health insurance system;
Determinants
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2015;(7):68-73
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To provide references for policy-making on the establishment of a sound healthcare sys-tem for China’s aged population. Methods:Based on the framework of The Behavioral Model of Health Services Use and data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2011 , the Tobit model of aged population’s health expenditures is built. Results: Self-rated health conditions, chronic disease, medical insurance, endowment insur-ance, self-rated living standard, age, gender, marital status and urban-rural character are the significant determi-nants. Conclusions:The healthcare system for China’s aged population should be built through simultaneously apply-ing disease prevention and access facilitation policies and the characteristic differences of different groups of aged pop-ulation should be taken into consideration.
