Jianmin Gao

TL;DR: There remains a strong pro-rich inequity of inpatient utilization in rural China, however, a narrowing income gap between the rich and poor and greater access to health insurance has effectively reduced income inequality, equalizing access to care.

TL;DR: This study suggests that narrowing the gap of household economic status, improving the anti-risk capability of small scale households, establishing prepayment mechanisms in health insurance, strengthening the depth of reimbursement and subsidising vulnerable households in Shaanxi Province are helpful for both reducing the probability of incurring CHE and the pro-rich inequality in CHE.

TL;DR: It is indicated that urban hypertension patients might have higher HRQoL than rural patients in Shaanxi, China, and it is necessary to strengthen the health education for hypertension patients to improve hypertension prevention and to adopt healthy habits such as regular physical activity.

TL;DR: Utilization of both outpatient and inpatient services was pro-rich in rural China with the exception of outpatient service in 2008, with the same needs for healthcare, rich rural residents utilized more healthcare service than poor rural residents.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the implementation of HMS had a significantly positive effect on the probability of urban residents going to primary care facilities for contact and the effect of HMS in chronic disease is poor and efforts to formulate chronic disease as a breakthrough to HMS should be carried out.