Socioeconomic differences in health-care use and outcomes for stroke and ischaemic heart disease in China during 2009-16: a prospective cohort study of 0·5 million adults

• Main Authors: Muriel Levy, MSc (Author), Yiping Chen, DPhil (Author), Robert Clarke, ProfFRCP (Author), Derrick Bennett, PhD (Author), Yunlong Tan, MSc (Author), Yu Guo, MSc (Author), Zheng Bian, MSc (Author), Jun Lv, PhD (Author), Canqing Yu, PhD (Author), Liming Li, ProfMPH (Author), Winnie Yip, ProfPhD (Author), Zhengming Chen, ProfDPhil (Author), Borislava Mihaylova, ProfDPhil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: China initiated major health-care reforms in 2009 aiming to provide universal health care for all by 2020. However, little is known about trends in health-care use and health outcomes across different socioeconomic groups in the past decade. Methods: We used data from the China...