Southeast University Reports Findings in Health Services Research (Does integrated medical insurance system alleviate the difficulty of using cross-region health Care for the Migrant Parents in China– evidence from the China migrants dynamic …): Health and Medicine – Health Services Research

2021 OCT 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Health and Medicine - Health Services Research is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Many internal migrants during the urbanization process in China are Migrant Parents, the aging group who move to urban areas to support their family involuntarily. They are more vulnerable economically and physically than the younger migrants.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Southeast University, “However, the fragmentation of rural and urban health insurance schemes divided by ‘hukou’ household registration system limit migrant’s access to healthcare services in their resident location. Some counties have started to consolidate the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) and the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) as one Integrated Medical Insurance Schemes (IMIS) from 2008. The consolidation aimed to reduce the disparity between different schemes and increase the health care utilization of migrants. Using the inpatient sample of migrant parents from China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2015, we used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) for regression models. We found that the migrant parents covered by the IMIS are more likely to choose inpatient services and seek medical treatment in the migrant destination. We further subdivide Non-IMISs into NCMSs and URBMIs in the regression to alleviate the doubt about endogenous. The results revealed that the migrant parents in IMIS use more local medical services than both of them in URBMI and NCMS.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The potential mechanisms of our results could be that IMIS alleviates the difficulty of seeking medical care in migrant destinations by improving the convenience of medical expense reimbursement and enhancing health insurance benefits.”

For more information on this research see: Does integrated medical insurance system alleviate the difficulty of using cross-region health Care for the Migrant Parents in China-- evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey. BMC Health Services Research, 2021;21(1):1053. BMC Health Services Research can be contacted at: Bmc, Campus, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, England. (BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/; BMC Health Services Research - http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Chao Ma, Southeast University, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Shutong Huo and Hao Chen.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07069-w. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal BMC Health Services Research is: Bmc, Campus, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, England.

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