The Analysis on the Influence Factors of Commercial Health Insurance Demand Based on the Model of Cross-sectional Fixed Effect / 中国卫生经济

Objective:To analyze the main influencing factors of China's commercial health insurance demand and promote the development of China's health service industry.Methods:Based on the panel data of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2009 to 2015,the model of cross-sectional fixed effect was constructed to conduct empirical analysis on the main influencing factors of China's commercial health insurance demand.Result and Conclusion:More significant influences on commercial health insurance demand factors were urban per capita disposable income,per capita urban employee basic medical insurance fund income,elderly population bring-up ratio and per capita outpatient expenses.For the basic medical insurance of urban employees,the urban employee medical insurance had significant effect on the demand of commercial health insurance.For the basic medical insurance of urban residents,the income impact was more prominent.The proportion of graduates of general institutions of higher learning had few influence commercial health insurance.

The effect of double butterfly wings raised platform fixed method in abdominal cavity drainage tube observation / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To explore the use double butterfly wings raised platform method for patients with fixed effects of abdominal cavity drainage tube. Methods For the treatment of gynecological surgery in the hospital and abdominal cavity drainage tube of the clinical data of 245 patients were analyzed, and on October 31, 2016 as the cut-off time was divided into the control group of 119 cases and observation group of 126 cases in control group were treated by conventional methods for abdominal cavity drainage tube, observation group of patients with double butterfly wings raised platform in the abdominal cavity drainage tube was fixed, and comparative analysis of two groups patients with abdominal cavity drainage tube drainage effect, pull the pain caused by fixed effects, and the drainage tube. Results The observation group and the control group there was no statistically significant difference total indwelling time, pain score, to observe group posted time (2.00±1.36), respectively (3.00± 0.62), the control group, respectively (5.00 ± 1.89), (0.35 ± 0.05) points, two groups compare the difference was statistically significant (t=7.883,3.457, P<0.01), the observation group without pipe of 100.0％(126/126), the control group without pipe of 89.9％(107/119), part of the pipe of 7.6％(9/119), completely pipe of 2.5％ (3/119), two groups compare the difference was statistically significant (Z=-15.305, P<0.01). Conclusion Compared with the conventional abdominal cavity drainage tube fixed method, double butterfly wings raised platform method fixed abdominal cavity drainage tube fixed effect is better, can significantly ease the pain of patients suffer, saved the time nursing.

Determinants of Health in Korea: A Comparative Analysis among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Countries / 보건행정학회지

BACKGROUND: This study aims to utilize Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data to identify macroscopic determinants of health at national level and to utilize it in health policy development through comparison and analysis with Korea. METHODS: The potential years of life lost (PYLL) were used as dependent variables and 19 indicators were selected as health determinants to be independent variables based on the results of previous studies. Data analysis was done using SAS ver. 9.4 package (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) and model used in technical statistics concerning PYLL by countries, multi-linearity test between independent variables and OECD economic studies were modified and used. RESULTS: From 1994 to 2012, the average PYLL for OECD countries was 4,262.9 years, the highest in Estonia and the lowest in Iceland. As a result of the analysis using the fixed effect model, the significant variables affecting PYLL were four variables: gross domestic product, nitric oxide, tobacco consumption, and number of doctors. The health determinants that had more influence on the PYLL of Korean people compared to other OECD countries were tobacco consumption, calorie consumption, fat intake and total health expenditure. CONCLUSION: In order to effectively reduce unnecessary deaths, we must continue to strengthen our smoking policy and nutrition policies such as calorie and fat intake. It is necessary to prevent the increase of total health expenditure due to the increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and to strengthen the public health aspect.

Impact of Individual, Household and Community Characteristics on Children’s Nutritional Indicators.

This study analyzed WHO-standardized nutritional indicators of children from selected households within communities that were sampled from all districts of Botswana. Data from the 2007 Botswana Family Health Survey were fitted into multilevel models that seek to account for variability due to the macro- and micro-units that have been hierarchically selected. This allowed for estimation of different levels of intraclass correlations while simultaneously assessing the model-fit by accounting for the influence on the nutritional indicators due to the fixed variables attributable to these macro- and micro-units. The results show that variation in nutritional status of under-five children in Botswana is a function of characteristics of the households and communities within which they live. As much as 17% of variation is due to differences in the communities and households. Economic status of households holds an important key in predicting the nutritional status of children.

Research on the Promotion Effect of Basic Medical Insurance on Household Consumption / 中国卫生经济

Objective: To study the impact of basic medical insurance on household consumption. Methods: According to the panel data of the east, central and west regions from 2002 to 2011, time and entity fixed effect model (Two-way FE) is established to test the relationship between the basic medical insurance and household consumption. Results: The basic medical insurance has significant positive effects on consumption, the consumption increased 10%, 16% and 19% in regions of East, Middle and West, respectively. Conclusion: The construction and improvement of the social medical insurance system improve the growth of the consumption, and the government should enhance the security, and consider the regional differences at the same time.

Convergence Study of Government Health Care Expenditure Based on the Provincial Panel Data / 中国卫生经济

Objective: To analyze the convergence trend of the government health care expenditure, propose political advices to improve the balanced collocation of the inter-area government health care expenditure. Methods: The data of 31 provinces of China in 10 years period between 2000 and 2010 are adopted, the fixed panel model are used to analyze the convergence trend. Results:Government health care expenditure per capita in China exists σ-convergence, while the absolute β-convergence does not exist. Conclusion:The provincial government health expenditure in China has a trend of convergence.

Effect of Health Information Technology Expenditure on Patient Level Cost / 대한의료정보학회지

OBJECTIVES: This study investigate the effect of health information technology (IT) expenditure on individual patient-level cost using California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) data obtained from 2000 to 2007. METHODS: We used a traditional cost function and applied hospital fixed effect and clustered error within hospitals. RESULTS: We found that a quadratic function of IT expenditure best fit the data. The quadratic function in IT expenditure predicts a decrease in cost of up to US$1,550 of IT labor per bed, US$27,909 of IT capital per bed, and US$28,695 of all IT expenditure per bed. Moreover, we found that IT expenditure reduced costs more quickly in medical conditions than surgical diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Interest in health IT is increasing more than ever before. Many studies examined the effect of health IT on hospital level cost. However, there have been few studies to examine the relationship between health IT expenditure and individual patient-level cost. We found that IT expenditure was associated with patient cost. In particular, we found a quadratic relationship between IT expenditure and patient-level cost. In other word, patient-level cost is non-linearly (or a polynomial of second-order degree) related to IT expenditure.

Workers' Compensation Insurance and Occupational Injuries

OBJECTIVES: Although compensation for occupational injuries and diseases is guaranteed in almost all nations, countries vary greatly with respect to how they organize workers' compensation systems. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of workers' compensation insurance in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - types of systems, employers' funding mechanisms, and coverage for injured workers - and their impacts on the actual frequencies of occupational injuries and diseases. METHODS: We estimated a panel data fixed effect model with cross-country OECD and International Labor Organization data. We controlled for country fixed effects, relevant aggregate variables, and dummy variables representing the occupational accidents data source. RESULTS: First, the use of a private insurance system is found to lower the occupational accidents. Second, the use of risk-based pricing for the payment of employer raises the occupational injuries and diseases. Finally, the wider the coverage of injured workers is, the less frequent the workplace accidents are. CONCLUSION: Private insurance system, fixed flat rate employers' funding mechanism, and higher coverage of compensation scheme are significantly and positively correlated with lower level of occupational accidents compared with the public insurance system, risk-based funding system, and lower coverage of compensation scheme.

Analysis of the fixed effect model by relative operating characteristic curve / 中国药理学通报

The principle of the relative operating characteristic (ROC) curve, along with constructing curve, a cutoff value between therapeutic and non-therapeutic concentration, formula for calculation, and statistic analysis, was introduced. Illustrated by an example, ROC was an important tool in analysis of the fixed effect model. It can beapplied to determine the relationship between a blood concentration and its action, probability of certain concentration producing therapeutic action, and high or low limit of therapeutic window, etc.