Determinants on aged population’s health expenditures in China / 中国卫生政策研究

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.