Health insurance enrollment and vision health in rural China: an epidemiological survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vision health is an important aspect of health worldwide. Visual impairment (VI) is associated with poor quality of life and is usually more prevalent in rural areas. To help rural populations obtain vision care, health insurance policies have emerged throughout the world. However, some existing literatures show that health insurance enrollment's impact on the overall physical health of rural population has been minimal. Focusing on vision health among adults in rural China, our study aims to investigates the impact of health insurance on vision health, heterogeneity of the effect, and the moderating effect of health insurance enrollment on the impact of chronic physical diseases and basic eye diseases on vision health.

Methods

Primary data were collected through

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature