Citation

Teng H, Cao Z, Liu J, Liu P, Hua W, Yang Y, Xiong L. Asia Pac. J. Public Health 2015; 27(2 Suppl): 61S-8S.

Affiliation

Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China xionglinping@aliyun.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1010539515571579

PMID

25673281

Abstract

This study evaluates health status among elderly residents in urban China and medical insurance schemes for them. A total of 931 urban elderly individuals aged 60 years or above in 3 cities were interviewed. The survey gathered data on individual sociodemographic characteristics, self-reported health status, chronic disease diagnoses, use of and expenditure related to health care services, satisfaction with medical insurance, and so on. The prevalence of chronic disease was 79.1% among the respondents, and medical expenditure on chronic disease per patient was 4656 Yuan in half a year. Over the 2 earlier weeks, 27.4% of respondents had felt sick, and 63.5% of them had had outpatient visits; 29.5% of respondents had been hospitalized in the past year. Among different groups, the inpatient reimbursement rate ranged from 45.5% to 81.2%, and the outpatient reimbursement rate was between 4.1% and 100%. The health care demand had not been met for many elderly individuals because of the lack of general outpatient coverage in the basic medical insurance scheme.

Language: en