The impacts of urban residents’ basic medical insurance on the medical treatment and preven-tive care service utilization
10.3969/j.issn.1674-2982.2015.12.007
- VernacularTitle:城镇居民基本医疗保险制度对医疗及预防保健服务利用的影响研究
- Author:
Jingjing ZHOU
;
Xiao ZHANG
;
Qian CAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Urban residents’ basic medical insurance;
Medical treatment;
Preventive care services;
Differ-ence-in-difference;
Probit model
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
2015;8(12):36-40
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:The paper aims to evaluate the impacts of the urban residents’ basic medical insurance on the medical treatment and preventive care services utilization through quantitative evaluation. Methods:The China Health and Nutrition Surveys ( CHNS) Data collected from 2006 to 2011 were used to compare the difference between medical treatment and preventive care services utilization adopting the difference-in-difference method and the Probit model. The control group urban residents did not participate in the basic medical insurance while their treatment group participated. Results:The medical treatment and preventive care services utilization were more for the treat-ment group than they were for the control one. The age, education level, annual per capita income and hypertension influenced the medical services utilization, and the annual per capita income was a protective factor. The age and ed-ucation level also influenced the preventive care services utilization. Conclusion: The urban resident basic medical insurance plays an important role in the medical treatment and preventive care services utilization. Meanwhile, this factor continuously enhanced the coverage and the per capita income protection for medical services.
