Trends in disparities in healthcare utilisation between and within health insurances in China between 2008 and 2018: a repeated cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fragmentation in China's social health insurance schemes and income gap have been recognised as important factors for the inequitable use of healthcare. This study assessed trends in disparities in healthcare utilisation between and within health insurances in China between 2008 and 2018.

Methods

We used data from the 2008, 2013, and 2018 China National Health Services Survey. Outpatient visit, inpatient admission and foregone inpatient care were chosen to measure healthcare utilisation and underutilisation by health insurances. Absolute differences and rate ratios were generated to examine disparities between and within health insurances, and changes in disparities were analysed descriptively. Pearson χ2 tests were used to test for statistical significance of dif

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8876177 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature