Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in China: A Reassessment with Data from the 2010–2012 China Family Panel Studies

Xu, Hongwei; Xie, Yu

doi:10.1007/s11205-016-1244-2

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“…This is an important step in the study on structural healthcare resources and their distribution. (2) The previous researches on the change of the maldistribution in healthcare resources are mainly qualitative explanations [11], but there are few quantitative studies on the reasons for the change of the maldistribution. This paper not only analyzes the reasons of the interregional maldistribution change in two dimensions, but also makes a precise quantification of the CR of each cause.…”

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“…Regional distribution of hospitals is relatively balanced in terms of quantity, however, there is still a big regional gap of the quality of hospital services in China [11]. The quality of hospital services in economically developed regions is significantly higher than that in the economically undeveloped regions [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(1) Measuring RMH: Many studies quantify RMH through per capita or per land beds or physicians [38][39][40][41][42][43]. (2) Looking for the influencing factors and determinants of regional healthcare resource distribution: Economics [12,18], society [11], institution [19,21], and location [14], which all play significant roles in regional healthcare resource distribution. (3) Analyzing the relationship between equal opportunities for healthcare and health outcome inequality: Although people's life expectancy and health are closely related to the extent and quality of healthcare resources available [36], equal opportunities of the access to healthcare resources may not result in the equal health outcome as individual differences [44].…”

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“…Thereafter, it is widely used to study inequalities in various fields, such as macro-economy [3,52], environment [53,54], health [11,35,36,41,55], transportation [56], education [10,57] and others. Compared with other common measure indexes that are applied to measure inequality, such as Theil index, Coefficient of Variation, and Centration Index, Gini Coefficient has a wider application [58].…”

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“…Although China has dramatically accelerated economic growth, its regional unbalanced development is also prominent, in particular, there is a considerable disparity between eastern coastal areas and western inland areas in terms of income and public services [7,8]. Most public service resources are strongly concentrated in well-developed regions, especially big cities, while fewer resources are allocated in the western inland and underdeveloped regions [9][10][11]. Faced with this situation, which could lead to greater social conflicts, the Chinese government is committed to changing the phenomenon and the conception of Although hospitals are almost the most important healthcare resources and their regional distribution can have far reaching impact on social sustainability, there have been few debates on the distribution of China's hospitals, especially according to the unique structural system of hospitals with Chinese characteristics.…”

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Health equity is significant for social sustainability and the Chinese government is trying to achieve the goals of "universal access to basic health care services". As the comprehensive carrier of health care services, hospitals are almost the most important health care resources and their regional maldistribution needs to give a special concern for health justice and social sustainability. This study aims to explore regional maldistribution of various hospitals through constructing, decomposing and calculating per capita hospitals Gini Coefficient based on the unique structural system of China's hospitals from [2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012][2013][2014]. Results show that: (1) the level of regional maldistribution of hospitals in China is not too serious in terms of quantity and there is a slight decline in recent years; (2) regional maldistribution of hospitals is mainly from General Hospitals and in inland areas; and (3) the slight decrease of regional maldistribution is mainly caused by Concentration Effect and increased per capita hospitals. Based on empirical results and the reality of China, some targeted policy suggestions are proposed to reduce regional maldistribution of hospitals and promote health equity for social sustainable development.

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in China: A Reassessment with Data from the 2010–2012 China Family Panel Studies

Cited by 33 publications

References 78 publications

Regional Maldistribution of China’s Hospitals Based on Their Structural System

Regional Maldistribution of China’s Hospitals Based on Their Structural System

The effect of Confucian culture on household risky asset holdings: Using categorical principal component analysis

Rural-to-urban Migration and Rising Evaluation Standards for Subjective Social Status in Contemporary China

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