Can health poverty alleviation policies simultaneously mitigate current and future medical-related poverty? Evidence from four waves (2011-2018) of the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health shocks were a major cause of poverty in low and middle income countries, including China. China has implemented a series of Health Poverty Alleviation Policy (HPAP) policies aimed at reducing poverty driven by health related factors. This study aims to systematically evaluate the short term and long term effects of China's HPAP on preventing health induced poverty.

Methods

Four waves of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), involving 11,380 respondents, were used in this study. We employed two indicators to estimate both current and future health-related poverty risks at the household level: the Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) index and the Health Poverty Vulnerability index, calculated using a three-stage feasible gen

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12857032 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature