Does the medical insurance system play a real role in reducing catastrophic economic burden in elderly patients with cardiovascular disease in China? Implication for accurately targeting vulnerable characteristics

• Main Authors: Meiyan Ma (Author), Wanxin Tian (Author), Jian Kang (Author), Yuze Li (Author), Qi Xia (Author), Nianshi Wang (Author), Wenqing Miao (Author), Xiyu Zhang (Author), Yiyun Zhang (Author), Baoguo Shi (Author), Han Gao (Author), Tao Sun (Author), Xuelian Fu (Author), Yanhua Hao (Author), Heng Li (Author), Linghan Shan (Author), Qunhong Wu (Author), Ye Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The vulnerability of cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients' health abilities, combined with the severity of the disease and the overlapping risk factors, leads such people to bear the economic burden of the disease due to the medical services. We estimated the economic burde...