Abstract
The New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NCMS) in China has provided benefits for rural migrant workers’ health service utilization, but the financial coordination and mutual aid of NCMS is mainly based on the county or district as a unit, leading NCMS with the characteristics of regional segmentation. Our study aims to explore their health service utilization, as well as to decompose differences of the health service utilization into contributors. Data from the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey in 2016 and Urban Statistical Yearbook in 2016 were used. We used coarsened exact matching to control the confounding factors in order to enhance the comparison of two groups. The Fairlie decomposition method was used to analyze the differences and the sources of health service utilization. Influencing factors of health service utilization for rural migrant workers with NCMS were diversified, especially contextual characteristic and individual characteristics. The proportion of ethnic minorities, the number of medical institutions for 10,000 people in the community, the number of beds for 10,000 people in the city, and the urban service quality index were the major contributors of the differences. The proportion of difference in the health service utilization of rural migrant workers with NCMS caused by health service need were −54.73% and 6.92%, respectively. The inequities of the probability of two weeks outpatient, and the probability of inpatients, were −0.006 and −0.007, respectively. There were substantial differences in the health service utilization between rural migrant workers with NCMS in the county/district and rural migrant workers with NCMS across the county/district. Our results illustrated the inequity from the differences on basis of characteristic effect and the discrimination effect. Our studies clarified that health service needs of should be fully considered, contributing to a more reliable understanding of the health service utilization of rural migrant workers.
Highlights
As a marginal group in China, Chinese rural migrant workers have the dual attributes of rural household registration (Hukou) and workers, and they usually face natural potential vulnerabilities such as great intensity of work, low salary, unstable work, poor living environment, and limited access to health service utilization
Our study focused on rural migrant workers participating in New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NCMS) aged 15~64
To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first comparative study to pay the attention to the health service utilization difference and equity of rural migrant workers from the perspective of off-site medical treatment of NCMS
Summary
Chinese rural migrant workers have emerged since the implementation of new policies of reform and opening up to the outside world in China. China’s industrialization and urbanization, the number of Chinese rural migrant workers is increasing. As a marginal group in China, Chinese rural migrant workers have the dual attributes of rural household registration (Hukou) and workers, and they usually face natural potential vulnerabilities such as great intensity of work, low salary, unstable work, poor living environment, and limited access to health service utilization.
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