Health Equity and Health Performance of Urban Residents in China / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective: To analyze the status and general trend of urban residents’ health equity and health performance. Methods:Adopting standardization of concentration index, the extended concentration index and health performance index. Results: Chronic disease and self-assessed health of urban residents in China gradually improved from 2007 to 2011, while disability of those people did not improve significantly. Health inequity exists among urban residents with different incomes. Chronic disease and disability are inclined to the poor while self-assessed health is inclined to the rich, but the unfair degree has decreased gradually by year; the self-assessed health and the health performance of chronic disease has been improved from the comprehensive health level and equity, the disability sustains serious condition. Conclusion: China’s new health care reform does not significantly improve the domestic urban residents’ health equity and health performance, the objective set of the health care reform in China should pay more attention to health equity.