Analyzing the Impact of the NRCMS Polices on the Utilization of Outpatient Services in Rural Resident Based on the Balanced Panel Data
- VernacularTitle:基于平衡面板数据模型分析新农合政策对农村居民门诊服务利用的影响
- Author:
Juan ZHENG
1
;
Jianqiang XU
Author Information
1. 徐州医科大学公共卫生学院 221004
- Keywords:
New rural cooperative medical system(NCMS);
Policy evolution;
Utilization of outpatient services;
Panel data
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Statistics
2018;35(5):689-694
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To analyze the influence of NRCMS polices evolutionon residents’utilizationof outpatient serv-ices.Methods Based on the same individual balance panel data in two years of three counties in Ji＇nan city,we build panel dat-amodel and conductrandom effects of binary choice panel data model,random effects Poisson regression model,difference in differences(DID)model to analyze the influence.Results Our study shows that the four-week consultation rate in 2011 in-creased by 4. 1% compared to 2008.Age,self-ratedhealthstatus,suffering from chronic diseases or not,the distance to the nearest medical institution have an influence on outpatient service utilization.The new rural cooperative medical outpatient reimburse-ment policy has an effect on thefour-week consultation rate of middle-income residents and high-income residents.The NCMS policy tends to benefit middle and high-income groups.Conclusion we should increase NCMS outpatient compensation level of low-income residents appropriately.
