The effects of China's urban basic medical insurance schemes on the equity of health service utilisation: evidence from Shaanxi Province.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In order to alleviate the problem of "Kan Bing Nan, Kan Bing Gui" (medical treatment is difficult to access and expensive) and improve the equity of health service utilisation for urban residents in China, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance scheme (UEBMI) and Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance scheme (URBMI) were established in 1999 and 2007, respectively. This study aims to analyse the effects of UEBMI and URBMI on the equity of outpatient and inpatient utilisation in Shaanxi Province, China.

Methods

Using the data from the fourth National Health Services Survey in Shaanxi Province, the method of Propensity Score Matching was employed to generate comparable samples between the insured and uninsured residents, through a one-to-one match algorithm. Ne

SUBMITTER: Zhou Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4016277 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature