2020
How and to what extent can pensions facilitate increased use of health services by older people: evidence from social pension expansion in rural China
Chen S, Chen X, Law S, Lucas H, Tang S, Long Q, Xue L, Wang Z. How and to what extent can pensions facilitate increased use of health services by older people: evidence from social pension expansion in rural China. BMC Health Services Research 2020, 20: 1008. PMID: 33148248, PMCID: PMC7640495, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05831-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth service utilizationService utilizationHealth servicesOlder peopleFrequency of outpatientInpatient service useHealthcare-seeking behaviorRetirement Longitudinal StudyProportion of peopleTraditional Chinese medicineHealthcare utilisationService useEconomic burdenInpatient servicesAge groupsAdditional economic burdenChina HealthOlder adultsChinese medicineMethodsUsing dataLongitudinal studyOutpatientsRegression analysisState of healthFuzzy regression discontinuity designAttributable risk and economic cost of hospital admissions for mental disorders due to PM2.5 in Beijing
Wu Z, Chen X, Li G, Tian L, Wang Z, Xiong X, Yang C, Zhou Z, Pan X. Attributable risk and economic cost of hospital admissions for mental disorders due to PM2.5 in Beijing. The Science Of The Total Environment 2020, 718: 137274. PMID: 32109812, PMCID: PMC9429815, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137274.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital admissionAttributable riskMental disordersEconomic burdenSignificant risk increaseMental health statusEffects of PMSubstantial morbidityStratified analysisElderly individualsHealth statusMedical expensesStudy periodAir quality guidelinesRisk increaseAdmissionTime trendsRiskEconomic costsDisordersPossible correlationBurdenAerodynamic diameterExposureDaily increase
2018
Assessing the effects of the percentage of chronic disease in households on health payment-induced poverty in Shaanxi Province, China
Lan X, Zhou Z, Si Y, Shen C, Fan X, Chen G, Zhao D, Chen X. Assessing the effects of the percentage of chronic disease in households on health payment-induced poverty in Shaanxi Province, China. BMC Health Services Research 2018, 18: 871. PMID: 30458772, PMCID: PMC6245518, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-018-3698-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth payment-induced povertyNational Health Services SurveyChronic patientsChronic diseasesChina National Health Services SurveyMore chronic diseasesNational Health SurveyHealth Services SurveyHeavy economic burdenLogistic regression modelsHealth paymentsHealth SurveyMethodsThe dataEconomic burdenPatientsFurther healthcare reformProtective factorsDiseaseIncidenceServices SurveyRural areasVulnerable groupsRegression modelsHealthcare reformHousehold members