Does the new cooperative medical scheme reduce inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in rural China?

Guo, Na; Iversen, Tor; Lu, Mingshan; Wang, Jian; Shi, Luwen

doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1883-7

BMC Health Services Research

Table 8 Decomposition analysis of concentration index of catastrophic health care expenditure in 2009 and 2012

From: Does the new cooperative medical scheme reduce inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in rural China?

	Coefficient		Mean		Elasticity		Concentration index (CI)		Contribution to CI
	2009	2012	2009	2012	2009	2012	2009	2012	2009	2012
Economic status (reference group = Quintile1)
Quintile2	−0.089	−0.068	0.198	0.194	−0.066	−0.049	−0.392	−0.402	0.026	0.020
Quintile3	−0.094	−0.162	0.198	0.204	−0.070	−0.123	0.008	0.000	−0.001	0.000
Quintile4	−0.103	−0.165	0.198	0.194	−0.077	−0.12	0.408	0.402	−0.031	−0.048
Quintile5	−0.071	−0.119	0.198	0.204	−0.053	−0.090	0.808	0.804	−0.043	−0.073
Household member ≥ 65	0.274*	−0.009	0.359	0.370	0.368	−0.012	−0.067	−0.037	−0.025	0.000
Household member ≤ 5	0.172	0.010	0.244	0.222	0.157	0.008	−0.259	−0.192	−0.041	−0.002
Household head
Sex (male)	−0.040	−0.107	0.947	0.935	−0.141	−0.373	−0.026	−0.025	0.004	0.009
Education level (reference group = below primary school level)
Junior middle school	0.152	−0.031	0.382	0.352	0.217	−0.040	−0.042	0.025	−0.009	−0.001
Senior middle school and above	−0.049	−0.059	0.076	0.074	−0.014	−0.016	0.398	−0.112	−0.006	0.002
Occupation (farmer)	−0.148	0.033	0.863	0.926	−0.478	0.115	0.006	0.001	−0.003	0.000
Household size (reference group = 1–3 members)
≥ 4 members	−0.348**	−0.145	0.580	0.676	−0.756	−0.366	−0.115	−0.092	0.087	0.034
Real reimbursement	−0.067	−0.857**	0.179	0.331	−0.045	−1.055	−0.025	−0.028	0.001	0.030
Length of stay (reference group = fewer than 8 days)
8–14 days	−0.003	−0.050	0.267	0.287	−0.003	−0.053	0.070	−0.238	0.000	0.013
≥ 15 days	0.471**	0.221*	0.328	0.398	0.579	0.328	0.146	0.257	0.085	0.084
Inpatient institution (reference group = town level)
County level	0.080	0.111	0.519	0.537	0.155	0.222	0.038	0.038	0.006	0.008
County above	0.487**	0.365	0.183	0.213	0.334	0.290	0.038	0.183	0.013	0.053
Self-assessed health (reference group = worse)
Normal	−0.047	−0.035	0.305	0.324	−0.053	−0.042	−0.178	−0.040	0.009	0.002
Better	−0.089	−0.062	0.305	0.380	−0.102	−0.088	0.156	−0.089	−0.016	0.008

*Statistically significant (P <0.05), **Highly statistically significant (P <0.01)

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