摘要
我国的贫困人口很多,医疗保健消费是导致贫困的重要原因之一,西部农村地区疾病损伤占致贫原因的27.3%。医疗消费(特别是大额医疗支出)给农村居民带来很大的经济负担,对农村地区低收入人群来说更是如此,一方面需要支付大额医疗费,另一方面疾病使劳动能力降低或丧失,这就导致因病致贫和因病返贫。经济困难是影响农村居民卫生服务利用率的主要因素之一,且在医疗服务消费过程中存在不公平性。
There are many impoverished population in our country, one of the most important reasons is the medical and health care expense, the proportion of which is up to 27.3% in western rural areas. The health expense（specially the large quantity health disbursement）brings enormous economical burden for the rural inhabitants, especially for the low income household. On the one hand needs to pay large quantity medical service expense, on the other hand the disease makes the work ability weaken or lose, and this is so-called ＂the poverty due to illness＂ . The economical difficulty is one of the leading factors which affect using rate of health service of rural inhabitants, and there exists inequity during the health service expense process.
出处
《中国卫生经济》
2006年第6期20-22,共3页
Chinese Health Economics
关键词
医疗消费
贫困
卫生公平性
health expenditure, poverty, health equity
