DOI: 10.7664/CHE20140106
Medical Insurance Affecting on the Health of the Elderly in China：based on the exmination of limited information of the maximum likelihood method
LIU Xi-guo
WANG Jian
Abstract：Objective: Based on overcoming the adverse effect of endogenous problem of causality; to study the effect of health insurance for the health of the elderly. Methods: To apply limited information maximum likelihood method and introduce instrumental variables for two-phase analysis. Results: The more to types of medical insurance participated, the easier the risk of chronic diseases could be reduced, but unfavorable to improve self-reported health. Conclusion: The government should develop social insurance under New Rural Cooperative Medical System, to improve the abilities of the elderly in participating in medical insurance.
Keywords：medical insurancehealth of the elderlylimited information of the maximum likelihood method
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 24-25 )