Can health service equity alleviate the health expenditure poverty of Chinese patients? Evidence from the CFPS and China health statistics yearbook.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To comprehend the relationship between various indicators of health service equity and patients' health expenditure poverty in different regions of China, identify areas where equity in health service is lacking and provide ideas for improving patients' health expenditure poverty.

Method

Data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2018 and the HFGT index formula were used to calculate the health expenditure poverty index of each province. Moreover, Global Moran's I and Local Moran's I test are applied to measure whether there is spatial aggregation of health expenditure poverty. Finally, an elastic net regression model is established to analyze the impact of health service equity on health expenditure poverty, with the breadth of health expenditure poverty as t

SUBMITTER: Tang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293547 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature