Health poverty reduction effect of medical insurance in China's middle-aged and elderly populations: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In the context of demographic structure and disease spectrum changes: to study the role of the medical insurance system in providing protection and risk resilience for middle-aged and elderly vulnerable groups who are prone to impoverishment by medical expenses (IME), identify the vulnerable points and propose recommendations for improving the medical insurance system.

Setting

The research used data from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

Participants

9184 households were included in the research ultimately.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

We use the WHO's recommended composite measure of disease-related poverty and algorithm to determine the occurrence of IME in households. Instrumental variable probit regression model w

SUBMITTER: Lai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12035475 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature