{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Liu K"],"funding":["National Social Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["138"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5540305"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>China uses both social health insurance (SHI) programs and a medical financial assistance (MFA) program to protect the poor from illness-induced financial risks. The MFA provides a dual benefit package targeting low-income families: subsidizing these families' participation in SHI programs, and providing cash aid to protect them from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). This study aims to investigate: (1) the association between MFA subvention for SHI enrollment and SHI enrollment; (2) the association between MFA cash aid and CHE; and (3) the association between SHI enrollment and CHE in low-income households in China.<h4>Methods</h4>Using nationally representative data from a comprehensive survey of low-income households in 2014, we construct an estimate of CHE based "],"journal":["International journal for equity in health"],"pubmed_title":["Is the medical financial assistance program an effective supplement to social health insurance for low-income households in China? A cross-sectional study."],"pmcid":["PMC5540305"],"funding_grant_id":["16CSH032"],"pubmed_authors":["Yang J","Liu K","Lu C"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Is the medical financial assistance program an effective supplement to social health insurance for low-income households in China? A cross-sectional study.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>China uses both social health insurance (SHI) programs and a medical financial assistance (MFA) program to protect the poor from illness-induced financial risks. The MFA provides a dual benefit package targeting low-income families: subsidizing these families' participation in SHI programs, and providing cash aid to protect them from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). This study aims to investigate: (1) the association between MFA subvention for SHI enrollment and SHI enrollment; (2) the association between MFA cash aid and CHE; and (3) the association between SHI enrollment and CHE in low-income households in China.<h4>Methods</h4>Using nationally representative data from a comprehensive survey of low-income households in 2014, we construct an estimate of CHE based ","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Aug","modification":"2026-07-15T22:14:15.417Z","creation":"2026-07-09T10:20:11.578Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5540305","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28764706"],"doi":["10.1186/s12939-017-0638-3"]}}