DOI: 10.7664/CHE20131117
Comparative Analysis on Redistributive Effect of Health Financing in Cities of East, Central and West Area：Based on urban residential health interview survey of typical cities under community health comprehensive reform
Abstract：Objective: The paper is to compare health financing redistributive effect (RE) of family tax, social medical insurance and out of pocket in cities of eastern, central and western areas. Methods: With data collected through household health interview survey of 8 typical cities under comprehensive community health reform in 2011, taking methodology of Aronson-Johnson-Lambert redistributive effect analysis to estimate the vertical equity, horizontal inequity and re-ranking effect of health financing. Results: The redistributive effect of family tax financing in eastern, central and western areas are negative, and the RE were respectively -0.013 1 ,-0.003 2 and-0.001 2. In the eastern area, social medical insurance under health financing redistribution (RE=0.002 8) is higher than the west (RE=-0.000 4) and the central area (RE=-0.001 6); RE of out of pocket (OOP) in east, middle and west was respectively-0.008 8, -0.009 1 and -0.005 5. Conclusion: Urban employees’ medical insurance played a weak positive role in health financing redistribution;tax, urban residents’ medical insurance and OOP did not play positive role in redistribution.
Keywords：cities of easterncentral and western areashealth financingredistributive effect
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 51-53 )