Economic status and catastrophic health expenditures in China in the last decade of health reform: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In order to solve the problem of "expensive medical treatment and difficult medical treatment" for patients and improve the equity of medical services, China started the health-care reform in 2009, and proposed ambitious goals of providing fair and high-quality basic medical and health services to all citizens and reducing economic burden of diseases. This study was to systematically explore the association between population economic status and incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) in mainland China in the last decade since 2009 health reform.

Methods

This systematic review was reported according to the standard of preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA). We systematically searched Chinese Electronic literature Da

SUBMITTER: Yuan Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8229446 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature