Inequity in healthcare needs, health service use and financial burden of medical expenditures in China: results from a consecutive household monitoring study in Jiangsu Province

• Main Authors: Weixi Jiang (Author), Xiaolin Xu (Author), Shenglan Tang (Author), Ling Xu (Author), Yaoguang Zhang (Author), Chris Elbers (Author), Frank Cobelens (Author), Lijing Yan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although public medical insurance covers over 95% of the population in China, disparities in health service use and out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure across income groups are still widely observed. This study aims to investigate the socio-economic disparities in perceived he...