2023
Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen C, Lai S, Deng Q, Dong W, Cao D, Zhao D, Zhao Y, Zhou Z, Chen X. Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China. Health & Social Care In The Community 2023, 2023: 1-14. DOI: 10.1155/2023/6131486.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPrimary healthcare institutionsMedical servicesMore medical servicesMedical service utilizationPrimary healthcare facilitiesLocal county hospitalLack of evidenceInpatient visitsOutpatient visitsRural western ChinaMedical visitsCounty HospitalService utilizationOutpatient servicesPrimary healthcareHealthcare centersOne-hour increaseHealthcare facilitiesVisitsMultilevel linear modelsMedical service provisionHealth policymakingHealthcare institutionsDifferential patternsRemote areas
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 design