Zhiying Zhou

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: The implementation of UEBMI increased the pro-rich inequity of outpatient utilisation and the implementation of URBMI increasedThe pro-poor inequity and both of these two health insurance schemes reduced the Pro-rich equity of inpatient utilisation.

TL;DR: There was a pro-rich inequality of HRQoL in both urban and rural China in 2013, and economic and educational statuses are found to be two key factors explaining the pro- rich inequity.

TL;DR: Implementation of ZPED is a benefit for patients in both absolute and relative terms, and the incentive to utilize outpatient or inpatient care attributed to ZpED is equivalent, regardless of the 20-times price difference in absolute terms.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the urban elderly have better HRQOL than the rural elderly and the elderly with different living arrangements in urban and rural area have differentHRQOL.