Income related inequalities in New Cooperative Medical Scheme: a five-year empirical study of Junan County in China

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• 作者：Shasha Yuan (1) (2)
  Clas Rehnberg (3)
  Xiaojie Sun (1)
  Xiaoyun Liu (4)
  Qingyue Meng (4)
  
  1. Center for Health Management and Policy ; Shandong University ; Jinan ; 250012 ; China
  2. Center for Health Policy and Management ; Institute of Medical Information & Library ; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College ; Beijing ; 100020 ; China
  3. Medical Management Center ; Karolinska Institutet ; SE-17177 ; Stockholm ; Sweden
  4. Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies ; Beijing ; 100191 ; China
  
• 关键词：New Cooperative Medical Scheme ; Income related inequality ; Concentration index ; Inpatient ; Outpatient ; Medical service utilization ; Reimbursement ; Out of pocket expenditures ; China
• 刊名：International Journal for Equity in Health
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 全文大小：369 KB
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• 刊物主题：Public Health; Development Economics; Quality of Life Research; Social Policy;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1475-9276

文摘

Introduction The Chinese New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was launched in 2003 aiming at protecting the poor in rural areas from high health expenditures and improving access to health services. The income related inequality of the reform is a debating and concerning policy issue in China. The purpose of this study is to analyze the degree and changes of income related inequalities in both inpatient and outpatient services among NCMS enrollees from 2007 to 2011. Data and methods Data was extracted from the NCMS information system of Junan County in Shandong province from 2007 to 2011. The study targeted all NCMS enrollees in the county, 726850 registered in 2011. Detailed information included demographic data, inpatient and outpatient data in each year. Descriptive analysis of quintiles and standardized concentration index (CI*) were employed to examine the income related inequalities in both inpatient and outpatient care. Results For inpatient care, the benefit rate CI* was positive (pro-rich) and increased from 2007 to 2011 while for outpatient care was negative (pro-poor) and a decreasing pattern was observed. For outpatient visits and expenses, the CI* changed from a positive sign in 2007 to a negative sign in 2011 with some fluctuations. The pro-rich inequality exacerbated for admissions while alleviated for length of stay and total inpatient expenses during the study period. The pro-rich inequality for inpatient reimbursement aggravated from 2007 to 2010 and alleviated from 2010 to 2011. For outpatient reimbursement, it altered from a positive sign in 2007 to a small negative sign in 2011. Finally, the richer needed to afford more self-payments for inpatient services and the CI* decreased from 2009 to 2011 while the inequality for outpatient self-payments changed from pro-rich in 2007 to pro-poor in 2011. Conclusions In the NCMS, the pro-rich inequality dominated for the inpatient care while a pro-poor advantage was shown for outpatient care from 2007 to 2011 in Junan. The extent of pro-rich inequality in length of stay, inpatient expenses and inpatient reimbursement increased from 2007 to 2009, but recently between 2010 and 2011 showed a change favoring the poor.