Studies from Harbin Medical University Further Understanding of Public Health (What are people’s attitudes toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers? a study from China): Health and Medicine – Public Health

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2024 JAN 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on public health have been presented. According to news originating from Harbin Medical University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Medical insurance fraud has caused huge losses to countries around the world, and public reporting has become an important means to combat medical insurance fraud.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Harbin Medical University: “The attitude of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers affects people’s reporting behavior, and understanding people’s attitude toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers provides a basis for further improving the system and policy of public participation in medical insurance fund supervision. We adopted the questionnaire method to conduct a national cross-sectional survey of the Chinese public and analyzed the data using Chi-square tests, Fisher’s exact tests, and binary logistic regression models. A total of 837 respondents were included, and 81.8% of the population had a supportive attitude toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers, with gender, whether they had used medical insurance reimbursement, and present life satisfaction being statistically significant (P < 0.05).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The public is generally supportive of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers, and women, those who have used medical insurance for reimbursement, and those who are satisfied with their lives are more likely to be supportive of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers.”

For more information on this research see: What are people’s attitudes toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers? a study from China. BMC Public Health, 2024,24(1):1-8. (BMC Public Health - http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com). The publisher for BMC Public Health is BMC.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17606-3.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Fangting Chen, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University. Additional authors for this research include Fangmin Deng, Jingran He, Jinpeng Xu, Jian Liu, Qi Shi, Hongyu Zhang, Ting Zhang, Qunhong Wu, Lijun Gao, Guomei Tian, Zheng Kang.