Health Care Utilization and Health Status of NCMS Elderly Enrollees in China:  Evidence from CHARLS Data

dc.contributor.author	Li, Amy
dc.contributor.author	Wang, Pengpeng
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-16T16:54:18Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-16T16:54:18Z
dc.date.issued	2012-04-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5142
dc.description	Honors thesis	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This study explores the effect of benefit designs and demographic factors on health care utilization and health status of elderly rural enrollees in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme, a rural health insurance program implemented by the Chinese government in 2003. Using the new data from CHARLS pilot study, we find that immediate reimbursement does not have a statistically significant effect on health utilization as suggested in a previous study, but instead on health status. Other policy-related factors neither have a significant effect due to limited data and large standard deviation nor display a consistent effect.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	health insurance	en_US
dc.subject	health care utilization	en_US
dc.subject	health status	en_US
dc.subject	reimbursement method	en_US
dc.subject	New Cooperative Medical Scheme	en_US
dc.subject	rural China	en_US
dc.title	Health Care Utilization and Health Status of NCMS Elderly Enrollees in China: Evidence from CHARLS Data	en_US
dc.department	Economics	en_US