The burden of the current curative expenditure of injury in Dalian, China-a study based on the "system of health accounts 2011".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Injury is one of the major public health problems and causes more than 5 million deaths in the world annually. Cases of specific types of injury are life-threatening and heavily-burdened to individuals and society. This study was aimed to assess the financial burden of injury on patients.

Methods

A total of 565 medical institutions were selected with multistage stratified cluster random sampling, containing 152,553 valid samples. Subsequently, the distribution of injury current curative expenditure (CCE) in different dimensions (including age and site of injury) was analyzed under the framework of System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011) using the established database.

Results

In China, both urban and rural injury mortality rates showed an upward trend of

SUBMITTER: Sun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814588 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature