Abstract
Socio-Economic and Rural-Urban Differences in Healthcare and Catastrophic Health Expenditures Among Cancer Patients in China: Analysis of the 2011-2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Highlights
ObjectivesThis study aims to examine socio-economic and rural-urban differences in treatment, healthcare service utilization and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among Chinese cancer patients, and to investigate the relationship between different treatment types and healthcare service use as well as incidence of CHE
In China, cancer deaths account for one-fifth of all deaths and exert a heavy toll on patients, families, healthcare systems, and society as a whole
There was a positive relationship between cancer treatment and outpatient visit (OR = 2.098, 95% confidence intervals (CI) = 1.453, 3.029), admission to hospital (OR = 1.961, 95% CI = 1.346, 2.857) and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) (OR = 1.796, 95% CI = 1.231, 2.620)
Summary
This study aims to examine socio-economic and rural-urban differences in treatment, healthcare service utilization and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among Chinese cancer patients, and to investigate the relationship between different treatment types and healthcare service use as well as incidence of CHE
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