Does media-based health risk communication affect commercial health insurance demand? Evidence from China

Gao, Lifei; Guan, Jing; Wang, Guojun

doi:10.1080/00036846.2021.1985071

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“…Through empirical analysis, it was concluded that residents’ income level and ethnic characteristics were significantly correlated with the demand for commercial health insurance. Gao et al (2022) [ 21 ] made an empirical study by constructing a fixed-effect panel data model and concluded that there was a significant correlation between household registration type, income and commercial health insurance demand. Jia and Yan (2022) [ 22 ] built an IV-Probit model with the cross-sectional data of the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) in 2017 and concluded that residents’ income, age, marital status, education level and household registration type are important factors affecting the demand for commercial health insurance.…”

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Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Chinese Residents’ Individual Characteristics and Commercial Health Insurance Demand

Tian

Dong

2023

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Based on the time series data of age characteristics, household registration characteristics, gender characteristics, education characteristics, marriage characteristics and commercial health insurance density of Chinese residents from 1997 to 2020, this paper aims to explore the dynamic relationship between the individual characteristics of Chinese residents and the demand for commercial health insurance by means of impulse response and variance decomposition analysis using an SVAR model. The results show that the age characteristics, household registration characteristics, gender characteristics, education characteristics and marriage characteristics of Chinese residents have a significant impact on the demand for commercial health insurance, but there is a time lag. There is a long-term equilibrium relationship between them: In terms of age characteristics and gender characteristics, the former has a positive effect in the short term and a significant inhibition on commercial health insurance demand in the long term, while the latter has the opposite. In terms of household registration characteristics, education characteristics and marriage characteristics, there are positive effects on the whole and negative effects in a particular period.

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Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Chinese Residents’ Individual Characteristics and Commercial Health Insurance Demand

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2023

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“…There is a significant increase in residents' willingness to purchase long-term care insurance after being informed of the probability of long-term care risks and cost of care ( 34 ). Adequate health risk communication can increase the level of health risk perception of the population, which consequently promotes the purchase of commercial health insurance ( 35 ).…”

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The impact of public health education on people's demand for commercial health insurance: Empirical evidence from China

Gao

Ying

Wang

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Public health education is gaining significance globally, and it is important for managing health risks. This study empirically analyzed the effect of public health education on people's demand for commercial health insurance. And we used the fixed effects and the mediating effect models, and instrumental variables regression in our research based on panel data of 31 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions) in China from year 2009 to 2019. The findings show that public health education significantly increases people's demand for commercial health insurance, and this effect remains significant when considering endogeneity and robustness. We further analyzed and found that the increased demand for commercial health insurance is caused by health literacy, health risk perceptions and health risk attitudes. Through heterogeneity analysis, we found that there were significant differences in the effects of public health education in regions with different demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. We found that the effect of health education on promoting people's demand for commercial health insurance is more obvious in regions with high levels of urbanization, proportion of men, education, economic development, medical resources, and social medical insurance coverage. Governments are supposed to take further measures to enhance the effectiveness of public health education, develop high-quality commercial health insurance, and continuously improve health risk coverage.

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“…Media related determinants for community provided health insurance, employer provided health insurance and privately purchased health insurance According to Gao, Guan & Wang (2021), over the years, the role of media in relaying information to society cannot be ignored. Media not only relays information about entertainment, political matters but also relays health related information to society like information about the benefits of having health insurance and the risks of not having health insurance plus the different types of health insurance individuals can explore (Gao et al, 2021;Chakrabarti & Shankar, 2015).…”

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Demographic and media factors affecting women’s demand for different types of health insurance: Evidence from a developing country

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Background: In the absence of a National Health Insurance Scheme, many Ugandans don’t have access to basic health care because of the high cost of attaining this health care. The problem is even worse among women who are faced with higher rates of morbidity and hospitalization. The objective of the study was to assess demographic and media factors affecting the demand for community, employer provided and private health insurance among women in Uganda. Methods: The study used secondary data from the 2016 Uganda Demographic Health Survey, a nationally representative survey. The sample comprised of 18,506 women aged 15-49 years from a population of 20,880 households. Data were analyzed using STATA version 15. Descriptive statistics, Chi square tests and the Firth logistic regression were used to understand the frequency distribution of different types of health insurance, demographic and media factors, associations between different types of health insurance, demographic and media factors and the demographic and media factors affecting the demand for community, employer provided and private health insurance. Results: The results indicated low demand for different types of health insurance among women. Education and wealth were the demographic factors that affected the demand for community and employer provided health insurance while marital status, age and education were demographic factors that affected the demand for community, employer provided and private health insurance respectively. Watching television, reading newspapers and listening to radio were the media factors that affected the demand for employer provided health insurance while listening to radio was the only media factor that affected the demand for community health insurance. Conclusions: There is a need to expedite the National Health Insurance policy to enhance the uptake of health insurance among women in Uganda.

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Does media-based health risk communication affect commercial health insurance demand? Evidence from China

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Chinese Residents’ Individual Characteristics and Commercial Health Insurance Demand

Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Chinese Residents’ Individual Characteristics and Commercial Health Insurance Demand

The impact of public health education on people's demand for commercial health insurance: Empirical evidence from China

Demographic and media factors affecting women’s demand for different types of health insurance: Evidence from a developing country

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