Identifying determinants of socioeconomic inequality in health service utilization among patients with chronic non-communicable diseases in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD) are particularly vulnerable to socioeconomic inequality due to their long-term expensive health needs. This study aimed to assess socioeconomic-related inequality in health service utilization among NCD patients in China and to analyze factors associated with this disparity.

Methods

Data were taken from the 2008 Chinese National Health Survey, in which a multiple stage stratified random sampling method was employed to survey 56,456 households. We analyzed the distribution of actual use, need-expected use, and need-standardized usage of outpatient services (over a two-week period) and inpatient services (over one-year) across different income groups in 27,233 adult respondents who reported as having a NCD. We used

SUBMITTER: Xie X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4069022 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature