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Yao Q, Yang F, Zhang X, Qi J, Li H, Wu Y, Liu C. EQ-5D-5L Population Scores in Mainland China: Results From a Nationally Representative Survey 2021. VALUE IN HEALTH : THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH 2024:S1098-3015(24)02751-7. [PMID: 38977191 DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVES There is a lack of monitoring changes in the population scores of the most recent version, EQ-5D-5L, in mainland China. This study aimed to address this knowledge gap by assessing the EQ-5D-5L scores in mainland China using a nationally representative sample. METHODS Data were extracted from the 2021 Survey of Health Index of Chinese Families, which covered 31 provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities in mainland China. The survey used a multistage quota sampling strategy encompassing 120 prefecture-level cities. Quotas were allocated to each prefecture-level city in accordance with the 2020 China Population Census. This approach resulted in a final sample of 11 030 eligible questionnaires. The utility index (UI) and EuroQol Visual Analog Scale (EQ VAS) scores were reported for the entire sample (age-gender-urban/rural weighted) and by the characteristics of the study participants. RESULTS The study participants had a weighted mean UI of 0.939 (SD 0.135) and EQ VAS score of 80.19 (SD 18.39). The most commonly reported problem was anxiety/depression (26.37%), whereas self-care was the least reported problem (6.18%). Those who were male, were younger, lived without chronic conditions and disabilities, had higher levels of education, earned higher monthly household income, and were covered by basic medical insurance for urban employees had higher scores in both the UI and EQ VAS. CONCLUSION This study revealed slightly lower UI scores despite a much higher drop in EQ VAS scores whereas China maintained minimum cases of COVID-19 in 2021 compared with the population norms recorded in 2019. Further studies are warranted to unveil the full impacts of COVID-19 outbreaks.
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- Qiang Yao
- Center for Social Security Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China; School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Journalism & Communication, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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- School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Emmanuel-Ajayi OT, Gu X. Comparative Analysis of the Healthcare Delivery System in China and Nigeria: A Review. Value Health Reg Issues 2024; 40:45-52. [PMID: 37976659 DOI: 10.1016/j.vhri.2023.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Equitable distribution of quality healthcare services among different subpopulations in China and Nigeria is inconsistent. This necessitates an examination of potential avenues for improving healthcare provision in both countries. A comparative analysis of both health systems was carried out to provide insights into the progress each nation has made, the obstacles they face, and areas both countries can learn from each other. METHODS We assessed 3 key dimensions of these systems using the Hsiao analytical framework. First, we scrutinized the policy levers of the health systems. Next, we evaluated intermediate outcomes, such as access to healthcare and the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the extent to which the health systems achieve their ultimate goals, including improving citizen health status and enhancing overall patient satisfaction with the healthcare services. RESULTS China surpasses Nigeria in terms of better birth outcomes, life expectancy, and management of communicable diseases. Both countries offer minimal protection against out-of-pocket spending on medical bills, which consequently exacerbates the poverty rate. CONCLUSIONS China surpasses Nigeria in every health metrics. However, Nigeria's healthcare system offers services to a larger proportion of its populace because of the involvement of the private sector in healthcare delivery. Both countries continue to experience significant challenges, such as limited access to healthcare services in rural areas and overall patient dissatisfaction with the quality of care provided.
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- Department of Project Management Engineering and Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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Yao Q, Zhang X, Wu Y, Liu C. Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study. BMJ Glob Health 2023; 8:e013350. [PMID: 38035731 PMCID: PMC10689391 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Health equity is an important indicator measuring social development and solidarity. However, there is a paucity in nationwide studies into the inequity in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in mainland China, in particular using the most recent data measuring HRQoL using the EuroQol 5-Dimension-5 Level (EQ-5D-5L). This study aimed to address the gap in the literature by estimating and decomposing income-related inequality of the utility index (UI) of EQ-5D-5L in mainland China. METHODS Data were extracted from the Psychology and Behaviour Investigation of Chinese Residents (2022), including 19 738 respondents over the age of 18 years. HRQoL was assessed by the UI of the EQ-5D-5L. Concentration index (CI) was calculated to measure the degree of income-related inequality in the UI. The contributions of individual, behavioural and context characteristics to the CI were estimated using the Wagstaff decomposition method. RESULTS The CI of the EQ-5D-5L UI reached 0.0103, indicating pro-rich inequality in HRQoL. Individual characteristics made the greatest contribution to the CI (57.68%), followed by context characteristics (0.60%) and health behaviours (-3.28%). The contribution of individual characteristics was mainly attributable to disparities in the enabling (26.86%) and need factors (23.86%), with the chronic conditions (15.76%), health literacy (15.56%) and average household income (15.24%) as the top three contributors. Educational level (-5.24%) was the top negative contributor, followed by commercial (-1.43%) and basic medical insurance (-0.56%). Higher inequality was found in the least developed rural (CI=0.0140) and western regions (CI=0.0134). CONCLUSION Pro-rich inequality in HRQoL is evident in mainland China. Targeted interventions need to prioritise measures that aim at reducing disparities in chronic conditions, health literacy and income.
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- Qiang Yao
- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Centre for Social Security Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Yang Y, Zhang Y, Wagner AK, Li H, Shi L, Guan X. The impact of government reimbursement negotiation on targeted anticancer medicines use and cost in China: A cohort study based on national health insurance data. J Glob Health 2023; 13:04083. [PMID: 37566690 PMCID: PMC10420358 DOI: 10.7189/jogh.13.04083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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Background High prices of targeted anticancer medicines (TAMs) result in financial toxicity for patients and the health insurance system. How national price negotiation and reimbursement policy affect the accessibility of TAMs for cancer patients remains unknown. Methods In this population-based cohort study, we used national health insurance claims data in 2017 and identified adult patients with cancer diagnoses for which price-negotiated TAMs were indicated. We estimated the half-month prevalence of price-negotiated TAMs use before and after the policy implementation in September 2017. We calculated direct medical costs, out-of-pocket (OOP) costs, and the proportion of OOP cost for each cancer patient to measure their financial burden attributable to TAMs use. We performed segmented linear and multivariable logistic regression to analyse the policy impact. Results We included 39 391 of a total 118 655 cancer beneficiaries. After September 2017, the prevalence of price-negotiated TAMs use increased from 1.4%-2.1% to 2.9%-3.1% (P = 0.005); TAMs users' daily medical costs increased from US$261.3 to US$292.5 (P < 0.001), while median daily OOP costs (US$68.2 vs US$65.7; P = 0.134) and OOP costs as a proportion of daily medical costs persisted (28.5% vs 28.5%; P = 0.995). Compared with resident beneficiaries, the relative probability of urban employee beneficiaries on TAMs uses decreased after the policy (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 2.4 vs aOR = 2.2). Conclusions The government price negotiation and reimbursement policy improved patient access to TAMs and narrowed disparities among insurance schemes. China's approach to promoting the affordability of expensive medicines provides valuable experience for health policy decision-makers.
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- Yu Yang
- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- International Research Center for Medicinal Administration, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- International Research Center for Medicinal Administration, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- International Research Center for Medicinal Administration, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Liao M, Luo N, Rand K, Yang Z. Urban/rural differences in preferences for EQ-5D-5L health states: a study of a multi-ethnic region in China. Qual Life Res 2023:10.1007/s11136-023-03394-1. [PMID: 36944783 DOI: 10.1007/s11136-023-03394-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare health preferences for EQ-5D-5L health states between urban and rural populations in China. METHODS This study used pooled secondary data from two EQ-5D-5L valuation studies. Participants were recruited from Guizhou province and Chongqing municipality, China using quota sampling. Each participant was interviewed face-to-face to value a set of 15 or 16 out of 30 EQ-5D-5L health states using time trade-off (TTO) methods including composite TTO and other two variants. Regression analysis was used to compare health state preferences between urban and rural participants. RESULTS A total of 597 participants (urban: 55.44%; rural: 44.56%) completed the valuation interviews. Both univariate and multivariable linear regression analyses showed that rural participants tended to value health states lower than urban participants regardless of severity of health states. The unadjusted and adjusted overall mean differences between the two groups were - 0.041 (95% confidence interval [CI] - 0.077, - 0.004, p-value = 0.031) and - 0.040 (95% CI - 0.078, - 0.002, p-value = 0.038), respectively. Predictions for the 3125 health states based on rural participants' health preferences were lower than those based on urban participants' health preferences. CONCLUSION There were small, yet statistically significant, differences in EQ-5D-5L health states preferences between urban and rural populations in China. Future study aiming at establishing a national value set should pay more attention to the sample representativeness.
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- Meixia Liao
- Health Systems and Behavioural Sciences Domain, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Health Systems and Behavioural Sciences Domain, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Health Services Research Unit, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Maths in Health B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Health Services Management Department, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
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Si Y, Bateman H, Chen S, Hanewald K, Li B, Su M, Zhou Z. Quantifying the financial impact of overuse in primary care in China: A standardised patient study. Soc Sci Med 2023; 320:115670. [PMID: 36669284 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Revised: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Overuse of health care is a potential factor in explaining the rapid increase in health care expenditure in many countries; however, it is difficult to measure overuse. This study employed the novel method of using unannounced standardised patients (SPs) to identify overuse, document its patterns and quantify its financial impact on patients in primary care in China. We trained 18 SPs to present consistent cases of two common chronic diseases and recorded 492 physician-patient interactions in 63 public and private primary hospitals in a capital city in western China in 2017 and 2018. Overuse, defined as the provision of unnecessary medical tests and drugs, was identified by a panel of medical experts based on national clinical guidelines. We estimated linear regression models to investigate how hospital, physician and patient characteristics were associated with overuse and to quantify the financial impact of overuse after controlling for a series of fixed effects. We found overuse in 72.15% of the SP visits. The high prevalence of overuse was similar among public and private hospitals, low-competence and high-competence physicians, male and female physicians, junior and senior physicians and male and female patients, but it varied between patients presenting different diseases. Compared to the non-overuse group, overuse significantly increased the total cost by 117.8%, the test cost by 58.8% and the drug cost by 100.3%. The financial impact of overuse was consistent across the aforementioned hospital, physician and patient characteristics. We suggest that the overuse observed in this study is unlikely to be attributable to physician incompetence but rather to the financing framework for primary care in China. These findings illuminate the cost escalation of primary care in China, which is a form of medical inefficiency that should be urgently addressed.
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- Yafei Si
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; School of Risk & Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; School of Risk & Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; School of Risk & Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; School of Risk & Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Public Administration, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
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Degefa MB, Woldehanna BT, Mebratie AD. Effect of community-based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure among chronic disease patients in Asella referral hospital, Southeast Ethiopia: a comparative cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res 2023; 23:188. [PMID: 36814231 PMCID: PMC9948492 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-09181-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Chronic disease-related catastrophic health spending is frequent in Ethiopia affecting several households, particularly the poorest ones. A community-based health insurance (CBHI) scheme has been in place in Ethiopia since 2011. The scheme aims to provide financial protection against health expenditure but there is little evidence of how well it protects chronic patients financially. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of community-based health insurance in reducing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure among patients attending chronic disease follow-up departments in Asella referral hospital, Southeast Ethiopia. METHOD A health facility-based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in Asella referral hospital from March 2022 to May 2022. Systematic random sampling was used to select 325 chronic patients. Data were collected using an open data kit (ODK) collect app and then imported to STATA version 16 for analysis. Propensity score matching was used to evaluate the effect of community-based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure. RESULT The study enrolled a total of 325 chronic patients (157 insurance members and 168 nonmembers). More than 30% of the study participants incurred health spending that could be catastrophic based on the 15% nonfood threshold. Catastrophic health expenditure was found in 31% of insured and 47% of uninsured participants. Overshoot and mean positive overshoot were 10% and 33% for insured members, respectively and the corresponding figures were 18% and 39% for nonmembers. Community-based health insurance contributes to a 19% ((ATT = -0.19, t = -2.97)) reduction in the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure among chronic patients. This result is found to be consistent for alternative measurements of the outcome variable and the use of alternative matching algorithms. CONCLUSION Chronic patients, particularly those in uninsured households, had a high incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure. Hence, it is relevant to expand community-based health insurance to provide financial protection for people suffering from chronic conditions.
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- Mosisa Bekele Degefa
- Department of Public Health, College of Health Science, Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia.
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- grid.7123.70000 0001 1250 5688School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- grid.7123.70000 0001 1250 5688School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Li D, Yang J, Liu H, Ma Y, Jiang J. Comparing income-related inequality on health service utilisation between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older rural residents in China: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e060581. [PMID: 36731937 PMCID: PMC9896347 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES This study quantifies income-related inequalities in health service utilisation of older rural-to-urban migrant workers, by comparison with older rural residents, and identify with factors giving rise to the inequalities. SETTING Nationally representative survey conducted in 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China. PARTICIPANTS 952 older rural-to-urban migrant workers and 2676 older rural residents were identified for further analysis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The probability of 2 weeks outpatient utilisation and inpatient utilisation. DESIGN Coarsened exact matching was used to control the confounding factors between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and their rural counterparts. Concentration index was used to depict the inequality in health service utilisation, and it can be decomposed proportionally into contributions. RESULTS The concentration indices of 2 weeks outpatient utilisation of two groups were -0.2061 (95% CI: 0.0193 to 0.1364) and -0.2041 (95% CI: 0.0594 to 0.1469), respectively. The concentration indices of inpatient of two groups were -0.0024 (95% CI: -0.0047 to 0.0639) and -0.1412 (95% CI: 0.0235 to 0.1125), respectively. The contributors of the inequality of 2 weeks outpatient utilisation of two groups were poor self-assessed health (SAH) status and richest group. The contributors of the inequality of inpatient utilisation of the rural elderly were poor SAH, fair SAH and sense of happiness. The horizontal inequality indices for 2 weeks outpatient of two groups were 0.1321 and -0.0.992, respectively. The horizontal inequality indices for the inpatient of two groups were -0.0032 and -0.0396, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The results illustrated the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in health service utilisation between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older rural residents. Our studies provided evidences to take full account of the health service needs, contributing to more reliable understandings of inequalities in the health service utilisation. The results may be referential to identify policy priorities conducive to the health policy reform in the process of active ageing in China.
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- Dan Li
- School of Public Management, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- The Nursing Department, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- The Nursing Department, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Zheng Z, Feng Z, Zhang D, Sun X, Dong D, Luo Y, Feng D. Does self-medication reduce medical expenditure among the middle-aged and elderly population? A four-wave longitudinal study in China. Front Public Health 2023; 10:1047710. [PMID: 36711405 PMCID: PMC9874163 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1047710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Introduction Self-medication has a high prevalence in the middle-aged and elderly population in China. Despite the published evidence demonstrating the economic benefits of self-medication, limited research has addressed the relationship between self-medication and individual medical expenditures, especially within the Chinese population. This study examined the effect of self-medication on individual medical expenditures in China and analyzed the heterogeneity between outpatient and inpatient cases. Methods We conducted a panel data analysis using data from four waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Two-part mixed-effect models were implemented to estimate the effect of self-medication on total outpatient and inpatient expenses and out-of-pocket (OOP) costs, where mixed-effects logit regression was used as the first part, and generalized linear mixed models with log link and gamma distribution was used as the second part. Results We identified 72,041 responses representing 24,641 individuals, of which 13,185 responses incurred outpatient expenses and 9,003 responses incurred inpatient costs. Controlling for all covariates, we found that self-medication behaviors were significantly associated with a higher probability of outpatient service utilization (OR = 1.250, 95% CI = 0.179 to 0.269; P < 0.001), but displayed no significant association with outpatient expenses. Respondents who had taken self-medication were less likely to use inpatient services (OR = 0.865, 95% CI = -0.201 to -0.089; P < 0.001), and their inpatient expenses were significantly reduced by 9.4% (P < 0.001). Inpatient OOP costs were significantly reduced by 10.7% (P < 0.001), and outpatient OOP costs were significantly increased by 11.3% (P < 0.001) among respondents who had self-medicated. Conclusions This study allowed us to identify the economic value of self-medication among the middle-aged and elderly population in China. Future work should guide the middle-aged and elderly to take responsible self-medication to reduce their economic burden.
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- Zehao Zheng
- School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Division of Health Services Research, Department of Foundations of Medicine, New York University Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY, United States
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- School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
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- JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China,*Correspondence: Da Feng ✉
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Chronic patients as retirement-aged workers: the impact of employment-based health insurance and chronic conditions on health-related working capacity and late-life career participation. Eur J Ageing 2022; 19:1351-1362. [PMID: 36692764 PMCID: PMC9729502 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-022-00721-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Retirement-aged workers with chronic conditions are increasingly engaged in late-life careers in the policy context of delayed retirement initiative. However, it remains uncertain as to how chronic conditions and employment-based social health insurance interact to affect health-related working capacity and late career participation in this group of people. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and the discrete choice model, this study finds that chronic conditions are negatively associated with health-related working capacity (- 0.400, p < 0.01) and late-life career participation (- 0.170, p < 0.01). Employment-based health insurance is positively associated with health-related working capacity of retirement-aged workers (0.432, p < 0.01), but is negatively associated with their late-life career participation (- 1.027, p < 0.01). Moreover, employment-based health insurance could weaken the negative associations between chronic conditions and health-related working capacity (interaction = 0.285, p < 0.05) and late-life career participation (interaction = 0.251, p < 0.05). More fine-grained policies for delayed retirement are needed to focus on the long-neglected health of retirement-aged workers with chronic conditions.
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Tang B, Mamubieke M, Jilili M, Liu L, Yang B. Amelioration and deterioration: Social network typologies and mental health among female domestic workers in China. Front Public Health 2022; 10:899322. [PMID: 36159277 PMCID: PMC9492937 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.899322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Previous quantitative studies on the effects of social network types on mental health have obtained inconsistent or conflicting results, due to problems such as sample selection bias or crude measurement of variables. In this study, we avoided these problems by using appropriate statistical methodology to examine the effect of various forms of social network on the mental health of a sample of 987 Chinese female domestic workers. Thus, we measured social network types in terms of both network attributes (friend networks and family networks) and interaction channels (face-to-face, telephone, and WeChat/QQ channels, where the latter are two popular online messaging platforms in China), and used the coarsened exact matching method to obtain a balanced sample. The results showed that social network typologies had positive and negative effects on the mental health of this sample of domestic workers, as evidenced by (1) In terms of network attributes, family networks were associated with improved mental health and friend networks were associated with worsened mental health; (2) In terms of interaction channels, the significant amelioration in mental health from family networks came from face-to-face interactions, the significant deterioration in mental health from friends networks came from telephone interactions, and in terms of other interaction channels, family networks and friends networks had no significant effect on mental health. Robustness tests indicated that these conclusions are reliable. We discuss the possible mechanisms of which different types of social networks influence mental health.
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Huang C, Ung COL, Wushouer H, Bai L, Li X, Guan X, Shi L. Trends of Negotiated Targeted Anticancer Medicines Use in China: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Int J Health Policy Manag 2022; 11:1489-1495. [PMID: 34273922 PMCID: PMC9808358 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In order to relieve the financial burden of the patients in China, the Ministry of Health (MoH) conducted the first national price negotiation and successfully negotiated three expensive medicines including 2 targeted anticancer medicines (TAMs), icotinib and gefitinib. However, little evidence was available to demonstrate the impact of the national negotiation on TAMs use. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the implementation of the national price negotiation policy in China on TAMs use. METHODS We used interrupted time series (ITS) design to examine the changes in the daily cost, the monthly hospital purchasing volume and spending of icotinib and gefitinib with pharmaceutical procurement data from 594 tertiary hospitals in 29 provinces of mainland China between January 2015 and July 2017. The period between May and July 2016 was applied to assess the impact of policy. RESULTS The daily cost of icotinib and gefitinib decreased by 50.08% (P<.001) and 53.89% (P<.001) 12 months after the national negotiation, respectively. In terms of volume, the negotiation was associated with increases in the trend of the monthly hospital purchasing volume of icotinib and gefitinib by 4.87 thousand defined daily doses (DDDs) (P<.001) and 6.89 thousand DDDs (P<.001). However, the monthly hospital purchasing spending of icotinib and gefitinib decreased rapidly by US$0.51 million (P<.010) and US$0.82 million (P<.050) following policy implementation, respectively. CONCLUSION The first national negotiation had successfully cut off the price of two negotiated TAMs and promoted TAMs use in China. In the future, government should conduct further price negotiations and include more medicines with clinical benefits into reimbursement schemes to alleviate patients' financial burden and promote their access to essential treatment.
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- Cong Huang
- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Center for Strategic Studies, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Pan L, Wang C, Cao X, Zhu H, Luo L. Unmet Healthcare Needs and Their Determining Factors among Unwell Migrants: A Comparative Study in Shanghai. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19095499. [PMID: 35564894 PMCID: PMC9103782 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19095499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the health status and unmet healthcare needs, and the impact of related factors, of unwell migrants in Shanghai. A total of 10,938 respondents, including 934 migrants and 10,004 non-migrants, were interviewed in Shanghai’s Sixth Health Service Survey. Descriptive statistics were utilized to present the prevalence of health status and unmet healthcare needs. Binary logistic regression analysis was performed to explore the relationships between predisposing factors, enabling factors, need factors, and health-related behavior and unmet healthcare needs in the Anderson health service utilization model. This study indicated the percentages of migrants having a fair or poor self-evaluated health status (21.09%) and suffering from chronic diseases (72.91%) were lower than those of non-migrants (28.34% and 88.64%, respectively). Migrants had higher percentages of unmet hospitalization needs (88.87%), unmet outpatient care needs (44.43%), and self-medication (23.98%) than those of non-migrants (86.24%, 37.95%, 17.97%, respectively). Migrants enrolled in Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance were more likely to utilize hospitalization services (OR = 1.457) than those enrolled in other health insurances or uninsured. Need factors had impacts on unwell migrants’ unmet healthcare needs. Other factors, including age and health behavior, were also found to significantly affect unwell migrants’ unmet health service needs. Specific gaps continue to exist between unwell migrants and non-migrants regarding the accessibility of local health services. Flexible policies, such as enhancing the health awareness of migrants and eliminating obstacles for migrants to access medical services, should be implemented to provide convenient and affordable healthcare services to unwell migrants.
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- Lin Pan
- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; (L.P.); (C.W.); (H.Z.)
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- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; (L.P.); (C.W.); (H.Z.)
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- Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100020, China
- Correspondence: (X.C.); (L.L.)
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- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; (L.P.); (C.W.); (H.Z.)
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- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; (L.P.); (C.W.); (H.Z.)
- Correspondence: (X.C.); (L.L.)
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Liu GG, Guan H, Jin X, Zhang H, Vortherms SA, Wu H. Rural population’s preferences matter: a value set for the EQ-5D-3L health states for China’s rural population. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2022; 20:14. [PMID: 35093084 PMCID: PMC8800217 DOI: 10.1186/s12955-022-01917-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Purpose
To develop an EQ-5D-3L social value set based on Chinese rural population’s preferences using the time trade-off (TTO) method, and to compare the differences in preferences on health states between China urban and rural population.
Methods
Between Sep 2013 and Nov 2013, a total of 1201 participants were recruited from rural areas of five Chinese cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guiyang, Nanjing, and Shenyang) using a quota sampling method. Each respondent valued 13 health states using the TTO, and a total of 97 EQ-5D-3L health states were directly valued for estimating the value set. Various models with different specifications were explored at both aggregate and individual levels. The final model was determined by a set of predefined selection criteria.
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An ordinary least square model at the aggregate level included 10 dummy variables for specifying the level 2 and 3 for each dimension and an N3 term presenting any dimension on level 3 was selected as the final model. The final model provides a value set ranges from − 0.218 to 0.859. The predicted utility values were highly correlated with but consistently lower than that of the published Chinese EQ-5D-3L value set (for urban population).
Conclusion
The availability of the China rural value set provides a set of social preferences weights for researchers and policy decision-makers for use in China rural area.
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The COVID-19 Run on Medical Resources in Wuhan China: Causes, Consequences and Lessons. Healthcare (Basel) 2021; 9:healthcare9101362. [PMID: 34683041 PMCID: PMC8544511 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9101362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 run on medical resources crashed Wuhan’s medical care system, a medical disaster duplicated in many countries facing the COVID-19 pandemic. In a novel approach to understanding the run on Wuhan’s medical resources, we draw from bank run theory to analyze the causes and consequences of the COVID-19 run on Wuhan’s medical resources and recommend policy changes and government actions to attenuate runs on medical resources in the future. Like bank runs, the cause of the COVID-19 medical resource run was rooted in China’s local medical resource context and a sudden realignment of expectations, reflecting shortages and misallocations of hospital resources (inadequate liquidity and portfolio composition); high level hospitals siphoning-off patients from lower level health providers (bank moral hazard and adverse selection problem); patients selecting high-level hospitals over lower-level health care (depositor moral hazard problem); inadequate government oversight and uncontrolled risky hospital behavior (inadequate bank regulatory control); biased medical insurance schemes (inadequate depositor insurance); and failure to provide medical resource reserves (failure as lender of last resort). From Wuhan’s COVID-19 run on medical resources, we recommend that control and reform by government enlarge medical resource supply, improve the capacity of primary medical care, ensure timely virus information, formulate principles for the allocation of medical resources that suit a country’s national conditions, optimize the medical insurance schemes and public health fund allocations and enhance the emergency support of medical resources.
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The contribution of Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance to income-related inequality in depression among middle-aged and older adults: Evidence from China. J Affect Disord 2021; 293:168-175. [PMID: 34198032 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Previous studies have not investigated the contribution of medical insurance to income-related inequality in depressive symptoms. To fulfill this research gap, this study aimed to assess the contribution of Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) to income-related inequality in depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in China. METHODS The data of this study was obtained from the 2018 wave of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The data of Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentrations were sourced from Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group. Furthermore, concentration curve and concentration index were employed to measure the extent of income-related inequality in depressive symptoms. Moreover, decomposition method of concentration index was used to quantify the contribution of URRBMI to the income-related inequality in depressive symptoms. RESULTS The concentration index values of depression occurrence and score were -0.1067 and -0.0712, respectively, indicating pro-rich inequality. The decomposition results reveal that the contribution rate of URRBMI to concentration index of depression occurrence was 18.88%, which indicates that it reduced the pro-rich inequality in depression occurrence. In addition, the contribution rate of URRBMI to concentration index of depression score was 3.55%, indicating that it relieved the pro-rich inequality in depression score. CONCLUSION This study found pro-rich inequalities in depression occurrence and score which were reduced with the coverage of URRBMI. It is quite necessary to further expand the coverage of URRBMI.
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Jia J, Song L, Li L. WITHDRAWN: Impact of basic medical insurance fund risk on the health risk assessment of urban residents. Work 2021:WOR205352. [PMID: 34308921 DOI: 10.3233/wor-205352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Jianyu Jia
- School of Economics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China
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- School of Economics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China
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- Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, Philippines
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Fu D, Liu L, Zhang X, Yu C, Luo H, Li N. The relationship between urban and rural health insurance and the self-rated health of migrant workers in Southwest China. BMC Health Serv Res 2021; 21:614. [PMID: 34182997 PMCID: PMC8240306 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06646-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Following health insurance reforms, China's health care system has made great progress. However, there are still huge differences between the urban and rural health insurance systems. For rural-to-urban migrant workers, there may be differences in the use of urban and rural health insurance to improve their health status. This study aimed to determine whether any disparities exist in the relationship between urban and rural health insurance and the self-rated health (SRH) of migrant workers in Southwest China from the perspective of urban and rural segmentation. METHODS Using cross-sectional survey data on Southwest China in 2016, a representative data sample drawn from 8507 migrant workers was analysed. An ordinary least squares (OLS) model and instrumental variable (IV) estimation were used to analyse the relationship between urban and rural health insurance and the SRH of migrant workers. RESULTS Using the IV method to control the endogeneity problems associated with health insurance, this study found that there are differences in the relationship between urban and rural health insurance and the SRH of migrant workers. Urban health insurance is associated with significant improvements in the SRH of migrant workers. Compared with the NRCMS, participating in urban health insurance, including urban employee basic medical insurance (UEBMI) and urban resident basic medical insurance (URBMI), increases the likelihood of migrant workers having better SRH. CONCLUSIONS There are disparities in the relationship between urban and rural health insurance and the SRH of migrant workers in China. Compared to rural health insurance, urban health insurance has a more positive correlation with the health of migrant workers. Our study shows that it is necessary to integrate urban and rural health insurance to promote social equity.
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- Dingying Fu
- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- School of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Jining Medical University, Jining, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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Fan X, Su M, Zhao Y, Si Y, Zhou Z. Trends in equity of inpatient health service utilization for the middle-aged and elderly in China: based on longitudinal data from 2011 to 2018. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:1162. [PMID: 34134682 PMCID: PMC8210384 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11203-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the trends in equity of receiving inpatient health service utilization (IHSU) in China over the period 2011-2018. METHODS Longitudinal data obtained from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies were used to determine trends in receiving IHSU. Concentration curves, concentration indices, and horizontal inequity indices were applied to evaluate the trends in equity of IHSU. RESULTS This study showed that the annual rate of IHSU gradually increased from 7.99% in 2011 to 18.63% in 2018. Logistic regression shows that the rates of annual IHSU in 2018 were nearly 3 times (OR = 2.86, 95%CL: 2.57, 3.19) higher for rural respondents and 2.5 times (OR = 2.49, 95%CL: 1.99, 3.11) higher for urban respondents than the rates in 2011 after adjusting for other variables. Concentration curves both in urban and rural respondents lay above the line of equality from 2011 to 2018. The concentration index remained negative and increased significantly from - 0.0147 (95% CL: - 0.0506, 0.0211) to - 0.0676 (95% CL: - 0.0894, - 0.458), the adjusted concentration index kept the same tendency. The horizontal inequity index was positive in 2011 but became negative from 2013 to 2018, evidencing a pro-low-economic inequity trend. CONCLUSIONS We find that the inequity of IHSU for the middle-aged and elderly increased over the past 10 years, becoming more focused on the lower-economic population. Economic status, lifestyle factors were the main contributors to the pro-low-economic inequity. Health policies to allocate resources and services are needed to satisfy the needs of the middle-aged and elderly.
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- Xiaojing Fan
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Administration, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Centre, Xi’an, China
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- School of Risk & Actuarial Studies and CEPAR, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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Dong W, Zwi AB, Bai R, Shen C, Gao J. Benefit of China's Social Health Insurance Schemes: Trend Analysis and Associated Factors Since Health Reform. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:5672. [PMID: 34070687 PMCID: PMC8199469 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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With the deepening of health insurance reform in China, the integration of social health insurance schemes was put on the agenda. This paper aims to illustrate the achievements and the gaps in integration by demonstrating the trends in benefits available from the three social health insurance schemes, as well as the influencing factors. Data were drawn from the three waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (2009, 2011, 2015) undertaken since health reforms commenced. χ2, Kruskal-Wallis test, and the Two-Part model were employed in the analysis. The overall reimbursement rate of the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI) is higher than that of Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) or the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) (p < 0.001), but the gap has narrowed since health reform began in 2009. Both the outpatient and inpatient reimbursement amounts have increased through the URBMI and NRCMS. Illness severity, higher institutional level, and inpatient service were associated with significant increases in the amount of reimbursement received across the three survey waves. The health reform improved benefits covered by the URBMI and NRCMS, but gaps with the UEBMI still exist. The government should consider more the release of health benefits and how to lead toward healthcare equity.
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- Wanyue Dong
- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China;
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- School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia
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- School of Public Affairs, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China;
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China;
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China;
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Tang S, Gong Y, Liu M, Yang D, Tang K. Do Drug Accessibility and OOP Burden Affect Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic Diseases? - EQ-5D-5L Evaluation Evidence From Five Districts in China. Front Public Health 2021; 9:656104. [PMID: 33791272 PMCID: PMC8006263 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.656104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Purpose: The dependence of patients with chronic diseases on drugs may affect their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aims to assess the relationship between the direct economic burden caused by out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, drug accessibility, sociodemographic characteristics, and health-related quality of life. Methods: 1,055 patients with chronic diseases from Gansu, Hebei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, and Tianjin were investigated. Data collection included basic conditions and economic and health insurance conditions of patients with chronic diseases. The CLAD and Tobit regression models were used to analyze and compare the health-related quality of life and influencing factors of patients with chronic diseases in five districts. Differentiated analysis was conducted through sub-sample regression to explore the variable health effects of patients with single and multiple diseases. Results: A total of 1,055 patients with chronic diseases participated in the study, 54.4% of whom were women. The overall average utility score was 0.727, of which Sichuan Province was the highest with 0.751. Participants reported the highest proportion of pain/discomfort problems, while patients reported the least problems with self-care. The improvement of drug accessibility and the reduction of the burden of out-of-pocket expenses have significant positive effects on HRQoL. Various sociodemographic factors such as age and gender also have significant impact on HRQoL of patients with chronic diseases. HRQoL of patients with multiple chronic diseases is more affected by various influencing factors than that of patients with single disease. Conclusion: In order to improve the quality of life of patients with chronic diseases, it is of great importance to ensure the accessibility of drugs and reduce patients' medication burden. Future focus should shift from preventing and controlling chronic diseases as individual diseases to meeting the comprehensive health needs of people suffering from multiple diseases.
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- Shaoliang Tang
- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Faculty of Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Zhao Y, Zhou Z, Fan X, Nawaz R, Zhao D, Xu T, Su M, Cao D, Shen C, Lai S. Comparison of inequity in health-related quality of life among unemployed and employed individuals in China. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:52. [PMID: 33407307 PMCID: PMC7789144 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-10038-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In China, achieving health equity has been regarded as a key issue for health reform and development in the current context. It is well known that unemployment has a negative effect on health. However, few studies have addressed the association between unemployment and inequity in health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This study aims to compare the inequality and inequity in HRQOL between the unemployed and employed in China. METHODS The material regarding this study was derived from the Chinese National Health Services Survey of Shaanxi Province for 2013. We controlled for confounding factors by utilizing the coarsened exact matching method. Finally, 7524 employed individuals and 283 unemployed individuals who were 15 to 64 years old in urban areas were included in this study. We used HRQOL as the outcome variable, which was evaluated by using the Chinese version of EQ-5D-3L. The health concentration index, decomposition analysis based on the Tobit model, and the horizontal inequity index were employed to compute the socioeconomic-related equity between the unemployed and employed and the contribution of various factors. RESULTS After matching, unemployed people tended to have poorer EQ-5D utility scores than employed people. There were statistically pro-rich inequalities in HRQOL among both employed and unemployed people, and the pro-rich health inequity of unemployed people was substantially higher than that of employed people. Economic status, age, education, smoking and health insurance were the factors influencing inequality in HRQOL between employed and unemployed individuals. Education status and basic health insurance have reduced the pro-rich inequity in HRQOL for unemployed people. CONCLUSION It is suggested that unemployment intensifies inequality and inequity in HRQOL. According to policymakers, basic health insurance is still a critical health policy for improving health equity for the unemployed. Intervention initiatives aiming to tackle long-term unemployment through active labour market programmes, narrow economic gaps, improve educational equity and promote the health status of the unemployed should be considered by the government to achieve health equity.
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- Yaxin Zhao
- School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No.76 West Yanta Road, Xi'an, 710061, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Administration, Inner Mongolia University, No. 235 College Road, Hohhot, 010021, Inner Mongolia, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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Lai S, Lu L, Zhou Z, Shen C, Yang X, Zhao Y, Zhang X. The effects of family physician-contracted service on health-related quality of life and equity in health in China. Int J Equity Health 2021; 20:15. [PMID: 33407523 PMCID: PMC7788691 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-020-01348-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Family physician-contracted service (FPCs) has been recently implemented in Chinese primary care settings. This study was aimed at measuring the effects of FPCs on residents’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and equity in health among the Chinese population. Methods The study data was drawn from the 2018 household health survey (Shaanxi Province, China) using multistage, stratified cluster random sampling. We measured HRQoL using EQ-5D-3L based on the Chinese-specific time trade-off values set. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) technique was used to control for confounding factors between residents with and without a contracted family physician. The concentration index (C) was calculated to measure equity in health. Results Individuals with a contracted family physician had significantly higher HRQoL than those without, after data matching (0.9355 vs. 0.8995; P < 0.001). Additionally, the inequity in HRQoL among respondents with a contracted family physician was significantly lower than those without a contracted family physician (Cs of EQ-5D utility score: 0.0084 vs. 0.0263; p < 0.001). Conclusions This study highlights the positive effects of FPCs on HRQoL and socioeconomic-related equity in HRQoL. Future efforts should prioritize the economically and educationally disadvantaged groups, the expansion of service coverage, and the competency of family physician teams to further enhance health outcome and equity in health.
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- Sha Lai
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China
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- Team IETO, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR U1219, INSERM, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China
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Si Y, Zhou Z, Su M, Hu H, Yang Z, Chen X. Comparison of health care utilization among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China. BMC Health Serv Res 2020; 20:1118. [PMID: 33272275 PMCID: PMC7713311 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05895-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. It is important to identify the supplier-induced demand (SID) of health care. This study aims to test SID hypothesis by comparing health care utilization among patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. METHODS We used coarsened exact matching to compare the health care utilization and expenditure between patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals. Using cross-sectional data of the China Labour-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The main outcomes were outpatient proportion and expenditure as well as inpatient proportion and expenditure. RESULTS The matched outpatient proportion of patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals was 0.6% higher (P = 0.754) than that of their counterparts, and the matched inpatient proportion was 1.1% lower (P = 0.167). Patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals paid significantly more (680 CNY or 111 USD, P < 0.001) than their counterparts did per outpatient visit (1126 CNY [95% CI 885-1368] vs. 446 CNY [95% CI 248-643]), while patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals paid insignificantly less (2061 CNY or 336 USD, P = 0.751) than their counterparts did per inpatient visit (15583 CNY [95% CI 12052-19115] vs. 17645 CNY [95% CI 4884-30406]). CONCLUSION Our results lend support to the SID hypothesis and highlight the need for policies to address the large outpatient care expenses among patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. Our study also suggests that as the public becomes more informed, the demand of health care may persist while heath care expenditure per outpatient visit may decline sharply due to the weakened SID. To address misbehaviors and contain health care costs, it is important to realign provider incentives.
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- Yafei Si
- School of Risk & Actuarial Studies & CEPAR, The University of New South Wales, 223 Anzac Parade, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, The University of New South Wales, 223 Anzac Parade, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Public Administration, Inner Mongolia University, No. 235 College Road, Hohhot, 010021, Inner Mongolia, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University, Qinghua Yuan Street, No.1 Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
- School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, No.135, Xingangxi Road, Guangzhou, 510275, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
- Department of Economics, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Yang W, Li D, Gao J, Zhou X, Li F. Decomposing differences in depressive symptoms between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and their counterparts in mainland China. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:1442. [PMID: 32967642 PMCID: PMC7510073 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09374-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background There has been an increase in older rural-to-urban migrant workers (aged 50 and above) in mainland China, little known about their depressive symptoms. The aim of this study was to identify depressive symptoms among older rural-to-urban migrant workers, as well as explored the factors leading to differences in depressive symptoms between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and their rural counterparts (older rural dwellers) and urban counterparts (older urban residents) in mainland China. The results provided a comprehensive understanding of the depressive symptoms of older rural-to-urban migrant workers, and had great significance for improving the depressive symptoms for this vulnerable group. Methods Data were derived from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) conducted in 2015, and coarsened exact matching (CEM) method was employed to control confounding factors. This study employed a Chinese version 10-item short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D 10) to measure depressive symptoms, and used the Social-Ecological Model as a framework to explore influential factors related to depressive symptoms. Specifically, the approach of Fairlie’s decomposition was used to parse out differences into observed and unobserved components. Results After matching, our findings indicated that the prevalence of depressive symptoms in older rural-to-urban migrant workers was lower than older rural dwellers; and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in older rural-to-urban migrant workers was higher than older urban residents. Fairlie’s decomposition analysis indicated that type of in-house shower, sleeping time at night and ill in the last month were proved to be major contributors to the differences in depressive symptoms between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older rural dwellers; self-reported health and sleeping time at night were proved to be major contributors to the differences in depressive symptoms between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older urban residents. Conclusions Differences in depressive symptoms between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and their rural and urban counterparts did exist. Our findings contributed to a more reliable understanding in depressive symptoms among older rural-to-urban migrant workers. Our findings would be of referential significance for improving older rural-to-urban migrant workers’ depressive symptoms.
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- Wei Yang
- Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.,Department of Public health, Central Hospital of Shangluo, Shangluo, Shaanxi, PR China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China. .,School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Northwest Women and children's Hospital affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Hospital of Shangluo, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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Sun J, Lyu X, Yang F. The Effect of New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on the Socioeconomic Inequality in Inpatient Service Utilization Among the Elderly in China. Risk Manag Healthc Policy 2020; 13:1383-1390. [PMID: 32943955 PMCID: PMC7471479 DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s252336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background and Aim Health equity is an important goal of health policy, and the equalization of access to health care plays a vital role in guaranteeing it. The aim of this study was to use the cross-sectional data to explore the effect of New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on the socioeconomic inequality in inpatient service utilization among the elderly in china. Methods The data of this study were obtained from the 2018 wave of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), involving 3645 older adults aged 60 and above. Furthermore, concentration index and concentration curve were employed to measure the socioeconomic inequality in inpatient service utilization. Moreover, this study used multiple linear regression model to explore the effect of NRCMS on inpatient service utilization. In addition, this study adopted the decomposition of concentration index to investigate the effect of NRCMS on the socioeconomic inequality of inpatient service utilization. Results The concentration index of inpatient expense for the older people was 0.0538, and its concentration curve lays below the diagonal. The regression result indicates that NRCMS was significantly associated with higher inpatient expense among the elderly (coefficient = 0.8749, p < 0.01). The decomposition result reveals that the contribution rate of NRCMS to concentration index was -2.29%, which indicates that its contribution on reducing pro-rich inequality in inpatient service utilization was limited. Conclusion This study demonstrates that there was a pro-rich inequality in inpatient service utilization among the elderly. Furthermore, NRCMS was significantly associated with higher inpatient expense. Moreover, NRCMS only played a limited role in reducing pro-rich inequality in inpatient service utilization.
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- Jian Sun
- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China
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- High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200439, People's Republic of China
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- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China.,China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China
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The Effects of China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy on the Health and Health Equity of Rural Poor Residents: Evidence from Shaanxi Province. Healthcare (Basel) 2020; 8:healthcare8030256. [PMID: 32781696 PMCID: PMC7551026 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare8030256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Objective: China’s targeted poverty alleviation policy has a profound impact on the country’s rural economic and social development now. This study aimed to learn about the health status and health equity of rural poor residents under the implementation of the policy. It further explores the factors affecting the health status and health equity of rural poor residents in order to contribute to the improvement of the policy. Methods: The data of 1233 rural poor residents were collected from a questionnaire survey from 12 prefecture-level cities and areas of Shaanxi province in 2017, and the self-reported health was used to reflect the health status. A concentration index was applied to measure the inequity of the health status of rural poor residents. The decomposition method was employed to explore the source of health inequity. Results: The results showed that 44.56% of rural poor residents in Shaanxi province had a poor or very poor health status, which was affected by their economic level, gender, age, degree of education, and marital status. Additionally, participation in agricultural industry development, relocation, health poverty alleviation, and basic living standards were significantly correlated with health status. The concentration index of the health status of rural poor residents was 0.0327. The primary contributors to the health inequity in different regions varied, but the economic level and the degree of education were the most significant factors, and the targeted poverty alleviation policy had a significant impact on health equity. Conclusions: The results indicated that the health status of rural poor residents in Shaanxi province was generally poor, there was a pro-rich inequity in the health status, and the degree of education and economic level were the primary factors affecting the health status and health equity. The targeted poverty alleviation policy greatly impacted the health status and health equity of rural poor residents, and the difference in health status would lead to the inequity of benefits of the targeted poverty alleviation policy. In the future, the policy should focus on ensuring the sustainable development ability of rural residents with poor health status.
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Fan X, Kumar MB, Zhou Z, Lee CH, Wang D, Liu H, Dang S, Gao J. Influence of China's 2009 healthcare reform on the utilisation of continuum of care for maternal health services: evidence from two cross-sectional household surveys in Shaanxi Province. Int J Equity Health 2020; 19:100. [PMID: 32560727 PMCID: PMC7304157 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-020-01179-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Continuum of care for maternal health services (CMHS) is a proven approach to improve health and safety for mothers and newborns. This study aims to explore the influence of China’s 2009 healthcare reform on improving the CMHS utilisation. Methods This population-based cross-sectional quantitative study included 2332 women drawn from the fourth and fifth National Health Service Surveys of Shaanxi Province, conducted in 2008 and 2013 respectively, before and after China’s 2009 healthcare reform. A generalised linear mixed model (GLMM) was applied to analyse the influence of this healthcare reform on utilisation of CMHS. Concentration curves, concentration indexes and its decomposition method were used to analyse the equity of changes in utilisation. Results This study showed post-reform CMHS utilisation was higher in both rural and urban women than the CMHS utilisation pre-reform (according to China’s policy defining CMHS). The rate of CMHS utilisation increased from 24.66 to 41.55% for urban women and from 18.31 to 50.49% for rural women (urban: χ2 = 20.64, P < 0.001; rural: χ2 = 131.38, P < 0.001). This finding is consistent when the WHO’s definition of CMHS is applied for rural women after reform (12.13% vs 19.26%; χ2 = 10.99, P = 0.001); for urban women, CMHS utilisation increased from 15.70 to 20.56% (χ2 = 2.57, P = 0.109). The GLMM showed that the rate of CMHS utilisation for urban women post-reform was five times higher than pre-reform rates (OR = 5.02, 95%CL: 1.90, 13.31); it was close to 15 times higher for rural women (OR = 14.70, 95%CL: 5.43, 39.76). The concentration index for urban women decreased from 0.130 pre-reform (95%CI: − 0.026, 0.411) to − 0.041 post-reform (95%CI: − 0.096, 0.007); it decreased from 0.104 (95%CI: − 0.012, 0.222) to 0.019 (95%CI: − 0.014, 0.060) for rural women. The horizontal inequity index for both groups of women also decreased (0.136 to − 0.047 urban and 0.111 to 0.019 for rural). Conclusions China’s 2009 healthcare reform has positively influenced utilisation rates and equity of CMHS’s utilisation among both urban and rural women in Shaanxi Province. Addressing economic and educational attainment gaps between the rich and the poor may be effective ways to improve the persistent health inequities for rural women.
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- Xiaojing Fan
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, L3 5QA, Liverpool, UK.,MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK.
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- School of Public Health and Management, Binzhou Medical University, Shandong, Yantai, 264003, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Center of Medical Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, 76 Yanta West Road, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi, China
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Evaluation of health-related quality of life using EQ-5D in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0234850. [PMID: 32555642 PMCID: PMC7302485 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Objective Since December 2019, an increasing number of cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Now, more cases have been reported in 200 other countries and regions. The pandemic disease not only affects physical health who suffered it, but also affects the mental health of the general population. This study aims to know about the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of living using EQ-5D in general population in China. Methods An online-based survey was developed and participants were recruited via social media. The questionnaires included demographic and socioeconomic data, health status, the condition epidemic situation and EQ-5D scale. The relationships of all factors and the scores of EQ-5D were analyzed. Logistic regression model were used to the five health dimensions. Results The respondents obtained a mean EQ-5D index score of 0.949 and a mean VAS score of 85.52.The most frequently reported problem were pain/discomfort (19.0%) and anxiety/depression (17.6%). Logistic regression models showed that the risk of pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression among people with aging, with chronic disease, lower income, epidemic effects, worry about get COVID-19 raised significantly. Conclusion The article provides important evidence on HRQOL during the COVID-19 pandemic. The risk of pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression in general population in China raised significantly with aging, with chronic disease, lower income, epidemic effects, worried about get COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results from each categorical data can be used for future healthcare measures among general population.
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Gong GW, Chen YC, Fang PQ, Min R. Medical expenditure for patients with hemophilia in urban China: data from medical insurance information system from 2013 to 2015. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2020; 15:137. [PMID: 32503636 PMCID: PMC7273645 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-020-01423-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Hemophilia, a high-cost disease, is the only rare disease covered by basic medical insurance in all province of China. However, very few studies have estimated the medical expenditure of patients with this rare disease Therefore, this study is aimed at evaluating the medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia and identifying its determinants. Methods The study population included 450 patients with hemophilia who were extracted from the national insurance database between 2014 and 2016. An independent-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was performed to compare the medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia covered under urban employee basic medical insurance (UEBMI) and urban residence basic medical insurance (URBMI). Quantile regression analysis was conducted to explore the factors that affect the medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia. Results The total annual medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia in 2013, 2014, and 2015 had median of ¥7167 (US$ 1156), ¥3522 (US$ 577), and ¥4197 (US$ 677), respectively. The median medical expenditures of patients with hemophilia covered by UEBMI were ¥10,991 (US$ 1773), ¥2301 (US$ 377) and ¥8074 (US$ 1302), those of patients covered by URBMI were ¥4000 (US$ 645), ¥5717 (US$ 937) and ¥3141 (US$ 507) from 2013 to 2015. The differences in the medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia between UEBMI and URBMI from 2013 to 2015 were statistically significant. The number of admissions and the number of hospital days were statistically significant and positive for all quantiles. The types of medical service were statistically significant and negative for 50th quantile, and the reimbursement ratio was statistically significant and positive for 50th and 75th quantiles. (p < 0.05). Conclusion The medical expenditure of patients with hemophilia was lower than that of patients with other common rare diseases that were not included in the scope of basic medical insurance reimbursement. It was also observed that the medical expenditure was mainly influenced by the severity of disease, and partly affected by the reimbursement rate.
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- Guang-Wen Gong
- School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
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- School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
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Sun J, Lyu S, Zhao R. Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Outcomes Among the Elderly: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study in China. Risk Manag Healthc Policy 2020; 13:397-407. [PMID: 32523387 PMCID: PMC7234974 DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s248019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background and Aim Health is viewed as a form of human capital and a necessary basis for people to realize capabilities. Moreover, socioeconomic inequality in health outcome widens income inequality and exacerbates social inequality. The aim of this study is to measure socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes among the elderly in China. Methods The data used in this study were sourced from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2015, including 5643 participants aged 60 and above. Concentration curve and concentration index were applied to measure the extent of socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes among older adults. Furthermore, the decomposition method of concentration index proposed by Wagstaff was employed to quantify each determinant's contribution to the measured socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes. Results The concentration index of Activity of Daily Living Scale and Center of Epidemiological Survey-Depression Scale score were -0.0064 and -0.0158, respectively, indicating pro-rich inequality in physical and mental health among the elderly. The decomposition analysis revealed that household income (41.15%), aged 70-79 (17.37%), being male (8.38%), and living in urban area (5.78%) were key factors to explain the pro-rich inequality in physical health. Furthermore, the results also suggested that household income (68.41%), being male (17.55%), having junior high school education (10.67%), and living in urban area (6.49%) were key factors to explain the pro-rich inequality in mental health. Conclusion This study revealed that there are pro-rich inequalities in physical and mental health among the elderly in China, and the degree of pro-rich inequality in mental health is higher than that in physical health. Moreover, the results also suggested that household income is the biggest contributor to socioeconomic inequality in physical and mental health. Furthermore, this study found that educational attainment makes a substantial contribution to socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes, while the contribution of health insurance to health inequality is limited.
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- Jian Sun
- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China
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- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China.,China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China
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- Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Hebei 071000, People's Republic of China
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Su M, Lao J, Zhang N, Wang J, Anderson RT, Sun X, Yao N. Financial hardship in Chinese cancer survivors. Cancer 2020; 126:3312-3321. [PMID: 32396242 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate the proportion of Chinese cancer survivors experiencing financial hardship and then examine the relationship between material and behavioral financial hardship. METHODS This study surveyed 964 cancer survivors who were 30 to 64 years old and 644 survivors who were 65 years old or older during 2015-2016 (1608 survivors in all). Material financial hardship was measured by whether they had borrowed money because of cancer, its treatment, or the lasting effects of treatment, and behavioral financial hardship was measured by whether they had forgone some cancer-related medical care because of cost. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to examine factors associated with material financial hardship by age group. RESULTS Approximately 44% of the cancer survivors who were 65 years old or older borrowed money or went into debt because of cancer, and 54% of younger patients (P < .01) reported cancer-related debts. Among these survivors with cancer care debt, survivors aged 65 years old or older had a lower proportion of borrowing more than 50,000 Chinese yuan (CNY; approximately US $7700) than survivors aged 30 to 64 years (14% vs 20%). In both age groups, approximately 10% of cancer survivors reported that they had experienced behavioral financial hardship. After adjustments for covariates, cancer survivors who reported material financial problems were more likely to report behavioral financial hardship (odds ratio [OR] for those aged 30-64 years, 3.72; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.13-6.50; OR for those aged 65 years or older, 5.48; 95% CI, 2.69-11.15). CONCLUSIONS Older cancer survivors in China experience significant material financial hardship, but it is not as noticeable as younger patients' hardship. The results highlight the importance of identifying cancer survivors who are more likely to experience financial hardship and improving the affordability of cancer care in China.
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- Mingzhu Su
- School of Health Care Management (Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy, National Health Commission), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Center for Cancer Control and Policy Research, School of Health Care Management, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China
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- Center for Cancer Control and Policy Research, School of Health Care Management, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Center for Cancer Control and Policy Research, School of Health Care Management, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- School of Health Care Management (Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy, National Health Commission), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Center for Cancer Control and Policy Research, School of Health Care Management, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Health Care Management (Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy, National Health Commission), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Center for Cancer Control and Policy Research, School of Health Care Management, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.,Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Du Y, Wang W, Washburn DJ, Lee S, Towne SD, Zhang H, Maddock JE. Violence against healthcare workers and other serious responses to medical disputes in China: surveys of patients at 12 public hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res 2020; 20:253. [PMID: 32216766 PMCID: PMC7098126 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05104-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Workplace violence against healthcare workers is a global issue that is on the rise, with Chinese healthcare workers facing growing challenges with hospital violence. Attacks on medical staff have increased in recent years with no clear resolution. Prior research focused on policies to improve the doctor-patient relationship and better protect clinicians, but few studies addressed the patient perspective. This paper examines patients' choices when facing a medical dispute and identifies groups who are more likely to respond to conflict with violence or other serious actions. METHODS Patient survey responses were collected in 12 leading public hospitals in five Chinese provinces with 5556 participants. The survey asked sociodemographic information, patients' attitudes (e.g., general optimism, trust in their physicians, perceived healthcare quality), and their primary response to a medical dispute. From least to most severe, the options range from "complaining within the family" to "violence." We used t-tests and Chi-square tests to explore the relationships between reactions and patient characteristics. We also performed multivariable logistic regressions to determine the impact of sociodemographics and provider trust on the seriousness of responses. RESULTS The primary response of a third of respondents was complaining to hospital or health department officials (32.5%). Seeking legal help (26.3%) and direct negotiation with doctors (19.6%) were other frequent responses. More serious responses included 83 stating violence (1.5%), 9.7% expressing a desire to expose the issue to the news media, and 7.4% resorting to seeking third-party assistance. Patients who were more likely to report "violence" were male (OR = 1.81, p < .05), high-income earners (OR = 3.71, p < .05), or reported lower life satisfaction (OR = 1.40, p < .05). Higher trust scores were associated with a lower likelihood of a serious response, including violence (OR = 0.80, p < .01). CONCLUSION Most respondents reported mild reactions when facing a medical dispute. Among those who reported the intent of serious reactions, some sociodemographic characteristics and the trust of physicians could be predictive. To prevent future hospital violence, this work helps identify the characteristics of patients who are more likely to seek severe approaches to medical dispute resolution, including resorting to violence. From these results, hospitals will be better able to target specific groups for interventions that build patient-provider trust and improve general patient satisfaction.
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- Yuxian Du
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcome Research (HICOR), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 USA
- Data Generation and Observational Studies, Bayer Healthcare U.S. LLC, Whippany, NJ 07981 USA
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- Department of Public Administration, Law School, Shantou University, Shan-Tou, 515063 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
- Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
- Disability, Aging, and Technology Cluster Initiative, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
- Southwest Rural Health Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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Li D, Zhou Z, Shen C, Zhang J, Yang W, Nawaz R. Health Disparity between the Older Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers and Their Rural Counterparts in China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17030955. [PMID: 32033086 PMCID: PMC7038012 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17030955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Background: China’s older rural-to-urban migrant workers (age 50 and above) are growing old, but comparative health research on older rural-to-urban migrants in China is still in its infancy. The aim is to explore the health status of older rural-to-urban migrant workers in China; as well as to identify health disparity between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older rural dwellers. Methods: This study employed self-assessed health status (SAH) and chronic disease condition to explore the health status. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) was employed to improve estimation of causal effects. Fairlie’s decomposition analysis was conducted to find the health disparity. Results: Older rural-to-urban migrant workers were more prone to suffer from chronic diseases, but they had higher SAH when comparing older rural dwellers. Fairlie’s decomposition analysis indicated 10.44% of SAH disparities between two older groups can be traced to bath facility; 31.34% of chronic diseases disparities can be traced to educational attainment, sleeping time and medical scheme. Conclusions: This is the first comparative study examining health disparity focusing on older rural-to-urban migrant workers. Our study highlighted substantial health disparities between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and their older rural dwellers. Based on the contributing factors, government should take the drivers of health disparities into consideration in policy setting.
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- Dan Li
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (D.L.); (C.S.); (J.Z.); (R.N.)
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (D.L.); (C.S.); (J.Z.); (R.N.)
- Health Science Center, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, China;
- Correspondence:
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (D.L.); (C.S.); (J.Z.); (R.N.)
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (D.L.); (C.S.); (J.Z.); (R.N.)
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- Health Science Center, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, China;
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (D.L.); (C.S.); (J.Z.); (R.N.)
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Myerson R, Lu T, Yuan Y, Liu GGE. Cancer diagnosis and care among rural-to-urban migrants in China. BMJ Glob Health 2020; 4:e001923. [PMID: 31908866 PMCID: PMC6936538 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Introduction Cancer is a leading cause of death in China. Rural-to-urban migrants are a group of over 260 million people in China sometimes termed the 'floating' population. This study assessed the prevalence of cancer diagnosis and access to needed healthcare by residence and migration status in China. Methods We used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey, a nationally representative population-based random sample of adults age 45 years and older and their spouses in China. We used multivariable logistic regressions to compare outcomes among rural-to-urban migrants, local urban residents and local rural residents after adjusting for province of residence, socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics. Results The sample included 7335 urban residents, 9286 rural residents and 3255 rural-to-urban migrants. Prevalence of cancer diagnosis was 9.9 per 1000 population among rural-to-urban migrants (95% CI 6.5 to 15.1 per 1000 population). Rural-to-urban migrants had higher tobacco use (OR=2.01; 95% CI 1.59 to 2.56, p<0.001), lower use of a health check-up (OR=0.57; 95% CI 0.48 to 0.67, p<0.001) and lower prevalence of diagnosed cancer (OR=0.41; 95% CI 0.18 to 0.95, p=0.037) than urban residents. Among participants with diagnosed cancer, residence and migration status were not predictive of foregoing needed healthcare, but were predictive of diagnosis with a screen-detectable tumour (ie, breast, colon, prostate or cervical cancer) (OR=0.17; 95% CI 0.05 to 0.63, p=0.007 for rural residents; OR=0.34; 95% CI 0.09 to 1.22, p=0.098 for rural-to-urban migrants, compared with urban residents). Conclusion Rapid and large migration is still a driving force transitioning China. Due to some remaining dual policy settings in favour of local residents, rural migrants tend to use lower primary care and preventive health check-ups in general, and diagnosis of screen-detectable tumours in particular, leading to potentially higher risk of missing early diagnosis of cancers. Closing gaps in diagnosis of screen-detectable tumours could increase treatment and improve cancer outcomes.
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- Rebecca Myerson
- Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, New York City, New York, USA
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Guan X, Zhang Y, Wushouer H, Shi L, Ross-Degnan D, Wagner AK. Differences in reimbursement listing of anticancer therapies in China: an observational study. BMJ Open 2020; 10:e031203. [PMID: 31911513 PMCID: PMC6955534 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Access to highly priced anticancer medications usually requires insurance coverage. A first step towards coverage of such medications is their inclusion in reimbursement lists. We assessed listing for reimbursement in China between 2009 and 2018 of anticancer medications on the WHO's Essential Medicines List. SETTING AND STUDY DESIGN Using publicly available data, we assessed which anticancer medications listed in the 20th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) were included in China's National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL). For five targeted anticancer medications on the WHO EML, we also assessed inclusion in the 31 Chinese Provincial Reimbursement Drug Lists (PRDLs). Logistic regression was used to test whether inclusion of targeted anticancer medications was associated with provincial economic levels. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES Inclusion of five targeted anticancer medications in the NRDL and PRDLs before and after 2017. RESULTS The 2017 NRDL included all anticancer medications on the WHO EML (except for one not approved in China at the time), and by 2018, all 31 PRDLs listed the targeted anticancer medications except for nilotinib; four provinces had covered all five targeted medications before the 2017 NRDL coverage mandate. Provincial economic level and regional incidence of specific cancers seemed unrelated to the inclusion of five targeted anticancer medications in PRDLs. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest that by including medications in the national and provincial reimbursement lists, China has taken an important first step in promoting access to targeted anticancer medications. Further research is needed to determine whether inclusion in PRDLs improved the availability, appropriate use and affordability of highly priced targeted anticancer medications in China.
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- Xiaodong Guan
- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- International Research Center for Medicinal Administration, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Strategic Studies, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China
- School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- International Research Center for Medicinal Administration, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Feng Z, Cramm JM, Nieboer AP. A healthy diet and physical activity are important to promote healthy ageing among older Chinese people. J Int Med Res 2019; 47:6061-6081. [PMID: 31709866 PMCID: PMC7045665 DOI: 10.1177/0300060519882590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objective To examine the associations between multiple health behaviours and health outcomes among older Chinese adults. Methods Data from the World Health Organization’s Study on global AGEing and adult health Wave 1 (2007–2010), collected among the older Chinese population, were included in this study. Smoking, diet, and physical activity were analysed by linear regression for any associations with depressive symptoms, quality of life (QoL), cognitive function, and physical function. Results A total of 13 367 participants aged >49 years were included in the analyses. After controlling for key socioeconomic factors, healthy diet was significantly associated with higher QoL (β = 0.099) and better cognitive function (β = 0.023). Physical activity was significantly associated with fewer depressive symptoms (β = –0.020), higher QoL (β = 0.086), better cognitive function (β = 0.072), and better physical function (β = –0.155 [higher scores = poorer physical function]). No relationship was found between smoking and any health-related outcome included in this study. Conclusion This study demonstrates the importance of healthy diet and physical activity for health outcomes in the older Chinese population.
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- Zeyun Feng
- Department of Socio-Medical Sciences, Erasmus School of Health
Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
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- Department of Health Technology Assessment, Shanghai Health
Development Research Centre (Shanghai Medical Information Centre), Shanghai,
China
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- Department of Socio-Medical Sciences, Erasmus School of Health
Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
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- Department of Socio-Medical Sciences, Erasmus School of Health
Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
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Hu G, Chen Y, Liu Q, Wu S, Guo J, Liu S, Wang Z, Zhao P, Sun J, Hu L, Zhou H, Luo L, Mao Y, Needleman J, Ma J, Liu Y. Patient experience of hospital care in China: major findings from the Chinese Patient Experience Questionnaire Survey (2016-2018). BMJ Open 2019; 9:e031615. [PMID: 31542764 PMCID: PMC6756435 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES China launched the National Healthcare Improvement Initiative (NHII) in 2015 to improve patient experiences in healthcare. This study aimed to generate evidence of hospital care quality from the patients' perspective. DESIGN This nationwide cross-sectional study interviewed participants from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across China. SETTING A total of 117 tertiary hospitals in mainland China. PARTICIPANTS 48 422 responses from outpatients and 35 957 responses from inpatients were included in this study. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE The scores of six predefined domains in the Chinese Patient Experience Questionnaire, five of which were designed to reflect specific dimensions of care, and one of which indicated the overall rating. RESULTS More than 80% of the respondents viewed their care experiences as positive. The NHII seems to have had a positive impact, as indicated by the steady, although unremarkable, increase in the patient experience scores over the 2016-2018 period. The Chinese patients generally reported a positive experience with the clinical aspects of care, but reported a less positive experience with the environmental, interpersonal and social services aspects of care. The institutional factors, including region and type of hospital, and personal factors, such as gender, age, education and occupation, were factors affecting the patient experience in China. Humanistic care was the aspect of care with the greatest association with the overall patient experience rating in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. CONCLUSIONS The national survey indicated an overall positive patient perspective of care in China. Older age, higher education level and formal employment status were found to be correlated with positive care experiences, as were higher levels of economic development of the region, a more generous insurance benefits package and a higher degree of coordinated care. The interpersonal-related initiatives had substantial roles in the improvement of the patient experience. In the regions where farmers and users of traditional Chinese medicine services constitute a greater proportion of the population, improvement of patient experiences for these groups deserves special policy attention.
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- Guangyu Hu
- Institute of Medical Information/Center for Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Peking University International Hospital, Beijing, China
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- National Institute of Hospital Administration, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Yao Q, Liu C, Zhang Y, Xu L. Changes in health-related quality of life of Chinese populations measured by the EQ-5D-3 L: a comparison of the 2008 and 2013 National Health Services Surveys. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2019; 17:43. [PMID: 30866953 PMCID: PMC6417242 DOI: 10.1186/s12955-019-1109-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUNDS The EuroQol Group Five-Dimensional (EQ-5D) instruments have been validated in China for measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and are increasingly being used in health economic studies. However, there is paucity in the literature documenting long-term changes in the EQ-5D results in the Chinese populations. This study aims to identify such changes and their determinants using the EQ-5D-3 L instrument. METHODS Data were obtained from the National Health Services Surveys in China, which included the EQ-5D-3 L since 2008. We compared the differences between the 2008 and 2013 surveys in the percentage of reported problems, visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, and the EQ-5D-3 L utility index derived from the national value sets. Factors associated with population changes in these EQ-5D results were identified using logistic, linear and Tobit regression models, respectively. RESULTS Compared with 2008, reported problems in self-care (3.3% vs 3.1%), usual activities (4.8% vs 4.6%) and anxiety/depression (6.4% vs 5.3%) decreased, whereas reported problems in mobility (5.1% vs 5.9%) and pain/discomfort (9.3% vs 12.6%) increased significantly (p < 0.05) in 2013. The regression models revealed a rise (β = 1.61, p < 0.001) in VAS scores, but a slight drop (β = - 0.01, p < 0.001) in utility index in 2013 compared with 2008 after controlling for variations in demographic, behavioral, socioeconomic and residential variables. But the effect sizes of the changes over time (estimated by "average change divided by baseline standard deviation") did not reach the threshold of clinical importance after adjustment for variations in other factors. Higher socioeconomic status (in terms of education, income and residential location) was associated with better EQ-5D-3 L results. CONCLUSION The changing trend (decrease) of the utility index is contradictory to that (increase) of the VAS scores, although neither is deemed clinically important. It is evident that socioeconomic and regional disparities in HRQoL exist in China.
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- Qiang Yao
- School of Political Science and Public Administration, Institute of Health Research, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.,School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Center for Health Statistics and Information, National Health Commission, Beijing, China.
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- Health Human Resources Development Center, National Health Commission, Beijing, China.
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Zhou T, Guan H, Yao J, Xiong X, Ma A. The quality of life in Chinese population with chronic non-communicable diseases according to EQ-5D-3L: a systematic review. Qual Life Res 2018; 27:2799-2814. [PMID: 29980994 PMCID: PMC6208588 DOI: 10.1007/s11136-018-1928-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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PURPOSE Over the past decade, a changing spectrum of disease has turned chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) into the leading cause of death worldwide. During the 2015 in China, there were more than 6.6 million deaths from NCDs, which was the highest rate around the world. In the present study, we performed a systematic review to analyze the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) according to EQ-5D-3L instrument in patients with different kinds of CNCDs in China. METHODS We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, VIP, WanFang Data, and CNKI databases up to April 12, 2018, to identify all relevant studies that reported on HRQoL assessed by EQ-5D-3L instrument in Chinese patients with CNCDs. Expert consultation and hand-searching of reference lists from retrieved studies were employed to identify additional references. The variation of mean utility values, EQ-VAS score ranges, and responses for each EQ-5D dimension described in relevant studies were extracted. RESULTS A total of 5027 English-language articles and 618 Chinese-language articles were identified, among which 38 articles met full inclusion criteria. These 38 studies involved 18 kinds of CNCDs. In this review, the health utility for diabetes mellitus ranged from 0.79 to 0.94 (EQ-5D VAS scores from 61.5 to 78.6), hypertension from 0.78 to 0.93 (70.1-77.4), coronary heart disease from 0.75 to 0.90 (71.0-77.0), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from 0.64 to 0.80 (55.0-67.0), epilepsy from 0.83 to 0.87 (78.3-79.6), cerebral infarction from 0.51 to 0.75 (49.7-79.0), while children cerebral palsy was 0.44 (27.3). CONCLUSIONS EQ-5D-3L is widely used in studies of HRQoL associated with CNCDs in China. Our results suggest that many factors may influence the measurement results of health utilities, including age, gender, sample source, comorbidities, rural/urban, and EQ-5D-3L value sets.
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- Ting Zhou
- School of International Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198 Jiangsu China
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- China Center for Health Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of International Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198 Jiangsu China
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- School of International Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198 Jiangsu China
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- School of International Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University, No. 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198 Jiangsu China
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Fan H, Zhao Y, Chen GD, Sun M, Zhu JH. Health insurance status and risk factors of mortality in patients with septic acute kidney injury in Ningbo, China. J Int Med Res 2018; 47:370-376. [PMID: 30328368 PMCID: PMC6384465 DOI: 10.1177/0300060518802526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between health insurance status and outcomes of septic acute kidney injury (AKI) related hospitalizations in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Ningbo, China. METHODS For this retrospective study, information was extracted from patients notes and billing records for patients >18 years of age with a diagnosis of AKI admitted to the ICU department, Ningbo First Hospital from April 2013 to March 2018. RESULTS Of the 368 patients with sepsis admitted to ICU, 167 (45%) developed AKI; 95 patients were insured and 72 were uninsured. Compared with insured patients, uninsured patients were younger, had higher Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores, but had less catheter interventions and received less renal replacement therapy (RRT). Results from a multivariate analysis showed that independent predictors of ICU mortality were age, APACHE II scores, MODS scores, use of RRT and lack of insurance. CONCLUSIONS Uninsured patients with septic AKI were younger, stayed a shorter time in ICU, had higher illness severity scores and a higher ICU mortality than insured patients. Importantly a major risk factor for ICU mortality in this group was lack of insurance.
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- Heng Fan
- 1 Department of Intensive Care Unit, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China
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- 2 Department of Nephrology, Ningbo Urology and Nephrology Hospital, Ningbo, China
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- 1 Department of Intensive Care Unit, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China
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- 1 Department of Intensive Care Unit, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China
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- 1 Department of Intensive Care Unit, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China
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Raza O, Lodhi FS, Morasae EK, Majdzadeh R. Differential achievements in childhood immunization across geographical regions of Pakistan: analysis of wealth-related inequality. Int J Equity Health 2018; 17:122. [PMID: 30119670 PMCID: PMC6098575 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-018-0837-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions for child health. Still, many children are not able to receive completed immunization status. Wealth - related inequality in immunization is considered a major reason for equitable coverage of immunization in Pakistan. Therefore, we examine wealth-related inequality in completed childhood immunization and to assess achievement indices across geographical regions in Pakistan. METHODS The analysis was based on a nationally representative demographic and health survey (DHS) of Pakistan, conducted in 2012-13. We examined completed childhood (12-23 months) immunization in the various regions of the country and we used concentration, extended concentration and achievement indices to demonstrate inequality across geographical regions in Pakistan. RESULTS Inequality in completed childhood immunization was seen in Pakistan with concentration index (CI) of 0.181 (95% CI: 0.164-0.209). Regions with high average of complete immunization showed lower inequality except for Sindh. Despite having better average immunization coverage in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, the relative change of 128% in concentration index (CI) from C2 (standard CI) to C5 (when poorer quantile received highest weights) shows this to be also the most inequitable regions. Four parameters of inequality aversion (v = 2, 3, 4 & 5) demonstrated that 'dis - achievement' in completed immunization is densely concentrated among the poorer regions. Balochistan, Sindh and Gilgit Baltistan exhibited broader inequality gaps (93.75%, 83.35%, and 54.93%, respectively) at higher aversion parameter. CONCLUSIONS As hypothesized, achievement index uncovers 'penalized' immunization coverage amongst the poorest population. Thus any policy that stringently focuses on improving average immunization rate without any strategy to deal with inequality will only improve immunization rate within wealthier groups. Based on these results, it is advisable to public health policy makers to use both aspect of information: average and degree of inequality in immunization coverage.
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- Owais Raza
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, International campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 5th Floor, Poursina Street, Keshavarz Boulevard, PO Box: 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, International campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 5th Floor, Poursina Street, Keshavarz Boulevard, PO Box: 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, International campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 5th Floor, Poursina Street, Keshavarz Boulevard, PO Box: 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of.,Knowledge Utilization Research Center and Center for Community-Based Participatory-Research, Tehran, Iran
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Si Y, Zhou Z, Su M, Wang X, Li D, Wang D, He S, Hong Z, Chen X. Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2018; 15:ijerph15071466. [PMID: 29997376 PMCID: PMC6069145 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15071466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Background: In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control. Methods: Data came from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2013, involving 17,663 respondents aged 45 and above. Tobacco use prevalence and tobacco use quantities were defined for further analysis. Using the concentration index (CI) and its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. Results: The concentration index of tobacco use prevalence was 0.044 (men 0.041; women −0.039). The concentration index of tobacco use quantities among smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age, area, and economic quantiles. Conclusions: Tobacco consumption was more common among richer compared to poorer people in China. Gender, educational attainments, age, areas, and economic quantiles were strong predictors of tobacco consumption in China. Public health policies need to be targeted towards men in higher economic quantiles with lower educational attainment, and divorced or widowed women, especially in urban areas of China.
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- Yafei Si
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- International Business School, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- International Business School, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
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- International Business School, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
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- Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Economics, Yale University, 60 College Street Suite 301, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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Su M, Si Y, Zhou Z, Shen C, Dong W, Fan X, Wang X, Wei X. Comparing the income-related inequity of tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence of hypertension in China. Int J Equity Health 2018; 17:82. [PMID: 29907150 PMCID: PMC6003002 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-018-0796-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Hypertension has become a global health challenge given its high prevalence and but low awareness and detection. Whether the actual prevalence of hypertension has been estimated is important, especially for the poor. This study aimed to measure tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence of hypertension and compare the inequity between them in China. METHODS Data were derived from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) conducted in 2011. By using the multistage, stratified, random sampling method, 12,168 respondents aged 18 or older were identified for analysis. Both tested prevalence (systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg or/and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg or /and current use any of antihypertensive medication) and self-reported prevalence (ever diagnosed with hypertension by a doctor) were used to measure the prevalence of hypertension. The concentration index was employed to measure the extent of inequality in tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence. A decomposition method, based on a Probit model, was used to analyze income-related horizontal inequity of tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence. RESULTS The tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence of total respondents were 28.8% [95% CI (28.0%, 29.6%)] and 15.7% [95% CI (15.0%, 16.3%)], and 26.4% [95% CI (25.1%, 27.6%)] and 19.0% [95% CI (17.9%, 20.1%)] in urban areas, and 30.3% [95% CI (29.3%, 31.4%)] and 13.5% [95% CI (12.7%, 14.3%)] in rural areas. The horizontal inequity indexes of mean tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence were - 0.0494 and 0.1203 of total respondents, - 0.0736 and 0.0748 in urban area, and - 0.0177 and 0.0466 in rural area respectively, indicating pro-poor inequity in tested prevalence and pro-rich inequity in self-reported prevalence of hypertension. Economic status, education attainment and age were key factors of the pro-poor inequity in tested prevalence. Economic status, area and age were key factors to explain the poor-rich inequity in self-reported prevalence. CONCLUSIONS This study revealed self-reported prevalence of hypertension was much lower than tested prevalence in China, while a larger gap between self-reported and tested prevalence was found in rural areas. Our study suggested social strategies aiming at narrowing economic gap and regional disparities, reducing educational inequity, and facilitating health conditions of the elderly should be implemented. Finally, awareness raising campaigns to test hypertension in rural area need be strengthened by health education programs and improving the access to public health service, especially for those who do not engage with regular health checkups.
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- Min Su
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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