Realigning demand and supply side incentives to improve primary health care seeking in rural China.

Abstract:

:China's recent and ambitious health care reform involves a shift from the reliance on markets to the reaffirmation of the central role of the state in the financing and provision of services. In collaboration with the Government of the Ningxia province, we examined the impact of two key features of the reform on health care utilisation using panel household data. The first policy change was a redesign of the rural insurance benefit package, with an emphasis on reorientating incentives away from inpatient towards outpatient care. The second policy change involved a shift from a fee-for-service payment method to a capitation budget with pay-for-performance amongst primary care providers. We find that the insurance intervention, in isolation, led to a 47% increase in the use of outpatient care at village clinics and greater intensity of treatment (e.g. injections). By contrast, the two interventions in combination showed no effect on health care use over and above that generated by the redesign of the insurance benefit package.

journal_name

Health Econ

journal_title

Health economics

authors

Powell-Jackson T,Yip WC,Han W

doi

10.1002/hec.3060

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-06-01 00:00:00

pages

755-72

issue

6

eissn

1057-9230

issn

1099-1050

journal_volume

24

pub_type

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