ArticleSSM - population health2024
Assessing the impact of public insurance on healthcare utilization and mortality: A nationwide study in China.
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- Health Insurance Schemes and Chronic Disease Management Behaviours in China: Evidence from Women with Non-Communicable Diseases.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
- The role of supply responses in public insurance expansion: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China.BMC health services research · 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
- Does younger children's social health insurance alleviate household impoverishment due to illness?BMC health services research · 2024Article
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Abstract
We investigate the effects of a significant health insurance expansion in rural China known as the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS). Our analysis is based on a nationwide dataset spanning from 2004 to 2011. We find that the NCMS effectively increases healthcare utilization, particularly inpatient admissions, and reduces the incidence for infectious diseases. In addition to the increased healthcare utilization, the reduction in the incidence for infectious diseases can be attributed to improved health knowledge and health behavior, both of which are associated with the expansion of insurance coverage. Our findings affirm the importance of insurance coverage in safeguarding low-income individuals from the adverse health consequences linked to infectious diseases.
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