Catastrophic health expenditure: A comparative analysis of smoking and non-smoking households in China.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Smoking is hazardous to health and places a heavy economic burden on individuals and their families. Clearly, smoking in China is prevalent since China is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world. Chinese smoking and nonsmoking households were compared in terms of the incidence and intensity of Catastrophic Health Expenditures (CHEs). The factors associated with catastrophic health expenditures were analyzed. METHODS:Data for this study were collected from two waves of panel data in 2011 and 2013 from the national China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). A total of 8073 households with at least one member aged above 45 were identified each year. Catastrophic health expenditure was measured by the ratio of a household's out-of-pocket healthcare payments (OOP

SUBMITTER: Zhong Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7259713 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature