DOI: 10.7664/CHE20140212
Empirical Study on Economic Security Degree of Social Medical Insurance on Target Group
Abstract：Objective: Measure the degree of economic compensation of social medical insurance on target households which had catastrophic health expenditure. Methods: Apply the method of catastrophic health expenditure and the methodology of economic security degree of social medical insurance on target population, taking the new rural cooperative medical insurance as the research object. Results: The incidence of catastrophic health expenditure(CHE) for rural households in Heilongjiang was reduced by 11.82%under the function of New Rural Cooperative Medical System(NCMS). The severity of CHE was alleviated by an average of 5.46% for households that eliminated catastrophe after reimbursement. For those remaining in catastrophe after reimbursement, the severity of CHE was reduced by 18.22%. The function coefficient of the NCMS on reducing the CHE was 0.66. Conclusion: NCMS had reduced and alleviated the severity of the impact of catastrophic health expenditure on rural households; however, the government still needs to focus on the important target group suffered CHE.
Keywords：target groupcatastrophic health expendituresocial medical insurancenew rural cooperative medical systemeconomic security degree
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( 41-42 )