introduction:poverty alleviation eforts might focus on not only the people who are currently poor but also the increase in poverty that may occur. accordingly, it is crucial to accurately pinpoint the characteristics of people who are about to become poor due to illness. we analyzed the incidence of impoverishment by medical expense (ime) at the provincial, family, and diferent medical insurance scheme levels to identify the precise groups that are vulnerable to medical-related poverty and wish to provide a reference of relative poverty standard for the “post-poverty era” and to serve the establishment of a long-term mechanism.
method:
study design: this is a cross-sectional study on incidence of poverty and impoverishment by medical expense, households with the highest risk of impoverishment from aspect of household head, household and healthcare needs, and healthcare utilization would be focused on.
results:
1) the rate of poverty and ime in diferent provinces.
the poverty and ime rates in china were 16.2 and 6.3% respectively, the rates of poverty and ime in 31 provinces are shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3. te poverty and ime rates in china’s 31 provinces difered signifcantly (p < 0.05). tose in the western region had much higher poverty rates than the other two regions, and the value in the eastern region was the lowest. te contribution of ime to overall poverty varied widely across the 31 provinces. in some provinces, such as inner mongolia, shandong, and heilongjiang, their rates of poverty were relatively low, but they sufered from a high burden of ime. for some provinces with higher poverty rates, such as tibet and xinjiang, the rate of ime was not so high. overall, the rate of ime was higher in the western region (7.2%) than that in the central (6.5%) and eastern (5.1%) regions.
