Analysis of diseases incurring poverty and its cost burden in Nanyang city of Henan province
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1000-6672.2018.07.016
- VernacularTitle:河南省南阳市因病致贫的病因及费用负担分析
- Author:
Lijiang ZHANG
1
;
Yong MENG
;
Shouying WANG
;
Benyan LYU
;
Hui LYU
Author Information
1. 新乡医学院管理学院 健康中原研究院
- Keywords:
Social security;
Health poverty alleviation;
Burden of disease cost;
Henan province;
Poor households
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration
2018;34(7):588-592
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the disease types incurring poverty, patient population layout, and cost burden by poor households due to illness. Methods During the time August 17-24,2017, App questionnaires were used onsite for data survey at 2 824 poor hourseholds in Nanyang city of Henan province, in order to learn the impacts of the poverty-causing diseases on the labor capacity of the patients and the cost burdens. Such methods as descriptive analysis, rank sum test and correlation analysis were used for data analysis. Results The survey found that 61.79 percent(1 745 households) of the poor households turned poor by illness, most of them aged 40 to 60 years old. The ten disease categories, namely cerebrovascular diseases, malignant tumor, ischemic heart diseases and mental diseases, constitute top disease causes of poverty. These diseases significantly damage their labor capacity, up to 37.67% of them totally disabled. The self-paid expenses of the patients per year accounted for 57.22% of the total annual expenses. Conclusions Medical insurance policies need to elevate the scope and efforts of medical compensation;public health services need to improve health promotion and health education; government supervision needs to be enhanced to keep minimizing patients′disease burdens.
