Analyzing the Impact of the NRCMS Polices on the Utilization of Outpatient Services in Rural Resident Based on the Balanced Panel Data / 中国卫生统计

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.