کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5092325 1375924 2014 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does health insurance matter? Evidence from China's urban resident basic medical insurance
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا بیمه درمانی مهم است؟ شواهد بیمه اولیه پزشکی شهروند چینی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI), for urban residents without formal employment. We estimate the impact of the URBMI on health care utilization and expenditure by a fixed effects approach with instrumental variable correction, using the 2006 and 2009 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We explore the time variation of program implementation at the city level as the instrument for individual enrollment. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services, including both outpatient care and inpatient care, but it has not reduced total out-of-pocket health expense. We also find that this program has improved medical care utilization more for children, members of the low-income families, and the residents in the relatively poor western region.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Comparative Economics - Volume 42, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 1007-1020
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