Health insurance and inequalities in catastrophic health spending in cancer patients. A cross-sectional study in China

• Main Authors: Wenqi Fu (Author), Jufang Shi (Author), Chaojie Liu (Author), Wanqing Chen (Author), Guoxiang Liu (Author), Jie He (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To determine the role of social health insurance programs in reducing inequality in the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) of cancer patients in China. Method: A convenient sample of 2534 cancer patients treated in nine hospitals in 2015 and 2016 were followe...