ArticleBMC health services research2016
Effects of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on reducing medical impoverishment in rural Yanbian: An alternative approach.
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- The impact of medical insurance reimbursement on postoperative inflammation reaction in distinct cardiac surgery from a single center.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Identification of Factors Influencing Out-of-county Hospitalizations in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme.Current medical science · 2019Article
- Analysis of factors influencing the frequency of primary care visits among diabetic patients in two provinces in China.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Effectiveness evaluation of quota payment for specific diseases under global budget: a typical provider payment system reform in rural China.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme on the Rural Residents' Hospitalization Medical Expenses: A Five-Year Survey Study for the Jiangxi Province in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroudThis study aimed to measure the poverty head count ratio and poverty gap of rural Yanbian in order to examine whether China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme has alleviated its medical impoverishment and to compare the results of this alternative approach with those of a World Bank approach.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was based on a stratified random sample survey of 1,987 households and 6,135 individuals conducted in 2008 across eight counties in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin province, China. A new approach was developed to define and identify medical impoverishment. The poverty head count ratio, relative poverty gap, and average poverty gap were used to measure medical impoverishment. Changes in medical impoverishment after the reimbursement under the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme were also examined.
resultsThe government-run New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme reduced the number of medically impoverished households by 24.6 %, as well as the relative and average gaps by 37.3 % and 38.9 %, respectively.
conclusionsChina's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme has certain positive but limited effects on alleviating medical impoverishment in rural Yanbian regardless of how medical impoverishment is defined and measured. More governmental and private-sector efforts should therefore be encouraged to further improve the system in terms of financing, operation, and reimbursement policy.
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