Study on the Influence of Transfer Payment on the Equalization of Medical and Health Services

VernacularTitle:转移支付对医疗卫生服务均等化的影响研究
Author: Ping WEI ; Bing XUE
Keywords: transfer payment; equalization of medical and health service; threshold effect
From: Chinese Health Economics 2017;36(3):12-15
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective:To study the influence of transfer payment on the equalization of medical and health services.Methods:Based on panel data of China's 23 provinces from 2000 to 2014.the medical and health services equalization indexes were measured and developed as the explained index.The explanatory variables such as transfer payment,per capita GDP and health care input were involved.The threshold value of time and transfer payment were applied to developed to conduct the panel threshold regression.Results:Transfer payment significantly promoted the equal distrihntion of health service resources,but the elastic declined if transfered more than 33 billion yuan as the threshold.Meanwhile,there was a threshold effect that the elastic of transfer payment to the equalization of China's medical and health service declined after NCMC in 2003.Conclusion:To further increase transfer payment,it needed to enlarge the new farmers and scope,optimize the equal distribution of health service resources.