Does inpatient health services utilization vary by remoteness in the medical financial assistance population? Evidence from Shaanxi province, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) provides health insurance and financial support for millions of low income and disabled Chinese people, yet there has been little systematic analysis focused on this vulnerable population. This study aims to advance our understanding of MFA recipients' access to health care and whether their inpatient care use varies by remoteness.

Methods

Data were collected from the Surveillance System of Civil Affairs of Shaanxi province in 2016. To better proxy remoteness (geographic access), drive time from the respondent's village to the nearest county-level or city-level hospital was obtained by a web crawler. Multilevel models were used to explore the impacts of remoteness on inpatient services utilization by MFA recipients. Furthermore,

SUBMITTER: Ren Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature