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Table 1 Healthcare utilization, expenditure and catastrophic health expenditure, 2013 and 2018

From: Changes in health care utilization and financial protection after integration of the rural and urban social health insurance schemes in Beijing, China

 

Utilization (%) a

Expenditure (RMB yuan) b

CHE (%) c

Outpatient

Inpatient

Outpatient

Inpatient

2013

 By hukou

  Urban

12.66

6.67

358.82

6835.28

11.23

  Rural

9.16

4.64

432.38

9689.33

10.54

  p-value

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.0202

0.0061

0.3480

 By household consumption

  Q1 (poorest)

8.87

3.88

261.47

3772.96

10.72

  Q2

8.13

3.77

312.02

4727.07

9.31

  Q3

9.18

4.91

354.64

6500.24

10.34

  Q4

11.70

6.11

333.85

6007.33

11.58

  Q5 (richest)

13.10

7.52

662.43

16,634.61

11.75

  p-value

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.1350

2018

 By hukou

  Urban

22.91

6.50

456.24

8925.09

18.65

  Rural

17.55

5.82

553.03

8933.91

20.24

  p-value

 < 0.001

0.2690

0.0096

0.3052

0.1270

 By household consumption

  Q1 (poorest)

18.21

4.85

381.10

4778.99

24.40

  Q2

20.43

5.00

440.74

5638.70

21.96

  Q3

19.58

5.68

578.82

6694.59

19.79

  Q4

18.55

6.78

524.09

7956.73

17.79

  Q5 (richest)

19.06

7.92

675.58

16,603.88

14.53

  p-value

0.5940

0.0030

0.0451

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

  1. Binary variables are tested with χ2 test, expenditure variables’ logarithms are tested with ANOVA
  2. a Utilization measures the proportion of residents who used outpatient care in the past 2 weeks or who used inpatient care in the past 12 months
  3. b Expenditure measures outpatients’ two-week expenditure on outpatient care or inpatients’ annual expenditure on hospitalization. All expenditure results are converted to comparable expenditure in 2018 with Beijing’s CPI
  4. c CHE Catastrophic health expenditure
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