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Despite growing evidence of health inequalities, equity of inpatient health service utilization(IHSU) among middle-aged and elderly people with multiple chronic conditions(MCCs) have received little attention. Therefore, this study aims to access the inequities of IHSU among middle-aged and elderly people with MCCs in China, and determin...
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... contribution of each factor is the product of the sensitivity or elasticity of economic conditions to the factor and its degree of inequality. Table 1 summarizes the demographic characteristics of the respondents with MCCs (including 2013 and 2018) by independent variables. In 2013, a total of 4002 patients with MCCs aged 45 and above were included in this study, with an average age of 62.29 years old, including 2027 women (50.6%) and 2141 people aged 61 and above (53.5%). ...Context 2
... most of the respondents had insurance (96.9%) and only 15.4% of them had a disability, whereas 38.7% of them had a good self-rated health. {insert Table 1 here} In 2013, the overall inpatient health service utilization (IHSU) of respondents was 16.6%, lower than those who were aged 71 years or older (21.0%), received only education below middle school (17.3%), no smoking (17.7%), no drinking (18.7%) and had good self-rated health (26.6%). In 2013, with the rise of economic status, IHSU generally showed a pro-poor inequality. ...