摘要
考察了新农合对与收入相关的医疗服务利用不平等的影响,以及新农合对2004和2006年之间医疗服务利用不平等改善的贡献。为此,将医疗服务利用不平等分解为四个部分,收入、与医疗需要相关的变量、其他变量和残差项。农村地区以"是否就诊"度量的不平等程度较小,但以"是否去较高层级医疗机构就诊"度量的不平等程度则明显有利于富人,这一不平等程度到2006年有所改善。新农合在2004年有利于富人的医疗服务利用,但这一作用在2006年有所下降。在2004—2006年,新农合的覆盖面迅速扩大,新农合对医疗服务利用不平等的改善有所贡献,尤其对女性医疗服务利用不平等的改善更为明显。但新农合对于在较高层级机构就诊的不平等改善贡献不明显,主要的贡献来自于收入效应。
We assess the impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme(NRCMS) from a new perspective by estimating the contribution of health insurance to the inequality of health care utilization in rural China.The paper decomposes income-related inequality in the utilization of health care services into four sources:direct income effect;need related indicators;non-need related indicators and a residual term.NRCMS increases the utilization of health care,but not for using higher level (township,county and city) facilities.Accordingly,NRCMS has a positive contribution in increasing the pro-poor inequality in health care utilization both in men and women.But it causes no improvement in inequality in using township and county level hospitals,which are employed more qualified health care staffs and provide health services of relatively higher quality.NRCMS contributes more in the pro-poor outcome of health care in women.
出处
《中国卫生政策研究》
2012年第3期45-51,共7页
Chinese Journal of Health Policy
基金
国家自然科学基金项目(70573024
70973027)
关键词
新型农村合作医疗
医疗服务利用
不平等
性别
New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
Health care utilization
Inequalities
Gender