Decomposing inequality in catastrophic health expenditure for self-reported hypertension household in Urban Shaanxi, China from 2008 to 2013: two waves' cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite the latest wave of China's healthcare reform initiated in 2009 has achieved unprecedented progress in rural areas, little is known for specific vulnerable groups' catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in urban China. This study aims to estimate the trend of incidence, intensity and inequality of CHE in hypertension households (households with one or more than one hypertension patient) in urban Shaanxi, China from 2008 to 2013.

Methods

Based on the fourth and the fifth National Health Service Surveys of Shaanxi, we identified 460 and 1289 households with hypertension in 2008 and 2013, respectively for our analysis. We classified hypertension households into two groups: simplex households (with hypertension only) and mixed households (with hypertension plus o

SUBMITTER: Si Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528006 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature