Research from Wuhan University Provide New Insights into Public Health (The effect of basic medical insurance on the changes of primary care seeking behavior: An application of hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2022 AUG 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on public health are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In order to encourage residents to go to primary care facilities, China has set up differentiated basic medical insurance reimbursement ratios.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Wuhan University: “The study aims to use the dynamic point of view of longitudinal data to examine the changes in the impact of basic medical insurance on primary care. The data for this study comes from the Chinese Family Panel Study (CFPS) in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. We adopted Hierarchal Age-period-cohort-Cross-Classified Random Effects Models (HAPC-CCREM) to examine the changes in the impact of basic medical insurance on primary care. Compared with non-insured groups, participants of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (coefficient = 0.730) have a relatively high incidence of primary care seeks, while Urban Residents’ Basic Medical Insurance (coefficient = -0.482) and Urban Employees’ Basic Medical Insurance (coefficient = -0.663) are lower, respectively. Age, period over time and cohort have a more obvious moderating effect on primary care seeks. The study of primary care behavior is an important direction for the construction of a hierarchical medical system.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “As basic medical insurance is the source of power for the hierarchical medical system, we can provide certain direction for policy formulation on the changes of basic medical insurance in primary care behavior.”

For more information on this research see: The effect of basic medical insurance on the changes of primary care seeking behavior: An application of hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022,10. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.929896.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Na Cao, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Xuyang Li, Junfeng Jiang, Wenyan Xu.

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