Determinants on aged population’s health expenditures in China / 中国卫生政策研究
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
;
(12): 68-73, 2015.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-468386
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To provide references for policy-making on the establishment of a sound healthcare sys-tem for China’s aged population.Methods:
Based on the framework of The Behavioral Model of Health Services Use and data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2011 , the Tobit model of aged population’s health expenditures is built.Results:
Self-rated health conditions, chronic disease, medical insurance, endowment insur-ance, self-rated living standard, age, gender, marital status and urban-rural character are the significant determi-nants.Conclusions:
The healthcare system for China’s aged population should be built through simultaneously apply-ing disease prevention and access facilitation policies and the characteristic differences of different groups of aged pop-ulation should be taken into consideration.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Type of study:
Health economic evaluation
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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