Title: Investigation of countryman's poverty caused by diseases in Shanxi Province Health 4 Program Counties
Abstract: Objective To investigate the severity of countryman's poverty caused by diseases and the preventing measures. Methods Defining the poor criterion by expand linearity expended system (ELES), calculating the rate of poor caused by diseases and studying the population's characteristic were performed. Results The rate of poor caused by diseases was 3.44%. The population had low income, bad health status, high rate of chronic diseases prevalence, and patients' high visit rate and hospitalizing rate. Their medical costs were higher than the control population. Conclusion Hospitalization insurance and prevention and treatment of chronic diseases can be useful to prevent countryman's poverty caused by diseases.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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