ArticleBMJ open2020
Interpretation of China's 2017 health expenditure: a latent profile analysis of panel data.
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- Impact of DRG payment reform on revenue and expenditure structure of public hospitals in China: evidence from difference-in-differences analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Analysis of health expenditures in China from 2000 to 2019 compared with the world and upper-middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Perceptions of Generic Drugs in the Pharmacists of Public Hospitals: A Cross-sectional Survey in Hubei Province of China.Current medical science · 2021Article
- The Effect of Business Cycles on Health Expenditure: A Story of Income Inequality in China.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore the latent structure of health financing and the institutional distribution of health expenditure (focused on hospital expenditure) in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of mainland China, and to examine how these profiles may be related to their externalising and internalising characteristics. STUDY
designThe study used panel data harvested from the China National Health Accounts Report 2018.
methodsMainland China's provincial data on health expenditure in 2017 was studied. A latent profile analysis was conducted to identify health financing and hospital health expenditure profiles in China. Additionally, rank-sum tests were used to understand the difference of socioeconomic indicators between subgroups.
resultsA best-fitting three-profile solution for per capita health financing was identified, with government health expenditure (χ
conclusionsPer capita health financing and health expenditure spent in hospitals have discrepant socioeconomic characteristics in different profiles, which may be attributed to macroeconomic factors and government policies. The study provided new and explicit ideas for health financing and health policy regulation in China.
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