ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
The impact of integrated urban and rural resident basic medical insurance on health service equity: Evidence from China.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Equity of opportunity in China's essential public health services: influencing factors and moderating mechanisms.International health · 2026Article
- Fiscal Incentives and Health Risk Protection: How Central-Local Fiscal Relations Shape Rural Households' Medical Burden in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Article
- Policy integration fluctuations in China's rural toilet revolution: typology and strategies for public health governance.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Insurance-related differences in high-intensity care utilization among older patients with cancer.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Article
- Trajectories and influencing factors of self-care behaviors in Chinese older adults with chronic heart failure: A prospective observational study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
- Medical insurance integration and rural-urban benefit disparities, 2006-2021: evidence from quasi-natural experiments in China.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Quantitative evaluation of China's commercial health insurance policies based on the policy modeling consistency index model.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Spatial differences, dynamic evolution and influencing factors of the coupling and coordination relationship between health resources allocation and health service utilization in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Article
- Unequal benefits: the effects of health insurance integration on consumption inequality in rural China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- How did the urban and rural resident basic medical insurance integration affect medical costs?-Evidence from China.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effects of access to primary healthcare services on health vulnerability among older adults in China: focusing on demographic differences.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Adverse Selection as a Barrier to Achieving Universal Public Health Insurance Coverage in China.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- The impact of the urban-rural residents' medical insurance integration on rural residents' out-of-pocket medical costs: based on the deductible, reimbursement rate, and ceiling line.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The cost of rehabilitation after critical illness: a comparison of hospitalization costs for traumatic brain injury and non-traumatic brain injury patients with disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Prevalence and influencing factors of medication-related burden among patients with late-life depression in typical city of eastern China: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Many countries and regions worldwide are improving their healthcare systems through the integration and unification of health insurance programs covering different groups of people. In China, the past 10 years has been the time when Chinese government promote the Urban and Rural Residents Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) by integrating the Urban Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) and New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS). Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the URRBMI on equity in relation to health services. Methods: The quantitative data used in this study were obtained from the CFPS 2014-2020 database, and all respondents with health insurance type UEBMI, URBMI, and NRCMS were included. UEBMI respondents were set as the control group and URBMI or NRCMS as the intervention group, and a DID method model was used to analyze the impact of integrating health insurance on health service utilization, costs and health status. Heterogeneity analysis was also conducted after stratifying the sample according to income level and chronic disease status. This was done to investigate whether there were differences in the effects of the integrated health insurance program across different social groups. Results: The implementation of URRBMI is found to be associated with a significant increase in inpatient service utilization (OR = 1.51, Conclusion: The implementation of URRBMI is found to have improved health insurance's ability to withstand risks and effectively improve access to health services for rural residents. In this regard, it can be considered as playing a positive role in bridging the gap in health service utilization between rural and urban areas and in improving regional equity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.