The impact of urban-rural medical insurance integration on medical impoverishment: evidence from China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial protection is a key dimension of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and social medical insurance is an effective measure to provide financial protection. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of urban-rural medical insurance integration on medical impoverishment in China.

Methods

We collected the time of integration policy in 337 prefecture-level cities across China, combined with the longitudinal database of China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) from 2012-2016, and used a difference-in-differences (DID) method with multiple time periods at the city level to study the effect of urban-rural medical insurance integration on the medical impoverishment. Besides, to explore the heterogeneity of policy effects across populations, we conducted subgrou

SUBMITTER: Huo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10668423 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature