Cancer screening in China: a steep road from evidence to implementation

C Xia, P Basu, BS Kramer, H Li, C Qu, XQ Yu… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Cancer screening has the potential to decrease mortality from several common cancer
types. The first cancer screening programme in China was initiated in 1958 and the Cancer …

Health poverty alleviation project in rural China: impact on poverty vulnerability, health status, healthcare utilization, health expenditures

Z Li, Y Chen, J Ding - Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background China has lead to the inception of the Health Poverty Alleviation Project (HPAP)
in 2015. While the previous studies suggest that, despite its apparent reduction in patients' …

The comparison of various types of health insurance in the healthcare utilization, costs and catastrophic health expenditures among middle-aged and older Chinese …

S Chen, Z Lin, X Fan, J Li, YJ Xie, C Hao - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rapid aging in China is increasing the number of older people who tend to require health
services for their poor perceived health. Drawing on the China Health and Retirement …

Perspectives and evaluation on the effect of financial burden relief of medical insurance for people with catastrophic diseases and its influencing factors

P Guo, Y Qin, R Wang, J Li, J Liu, K Wang, Y Li… - Frontiers in public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Catastrophic disease sufferers face a heavy financial burden and are more
likely to fall victim to the “illness-poverty-illness” cycle. Deeper reform of the medical …

Measurement and decomposition of the health poverty of rural residents in China

H Jia, X Sai, Y Su, Y Huang - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Narrowing the health gap and promoting health equality is the key to effectively blocking the
intergenerational transmission of rural poverty. Previous studies have mainly focused on the …

Poverty alleviation and health services for the poor in China: evidence from national health service surveys in 2013 and 2018

X Liu, M Li, H Zhu, Q Liu, X Xie - International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 - Springer
Background China has made intensive efforts to eliminate extreme poverty by 2020. This
paper aims to evaluate the changes in health service needs, utilization, and medical …

Effects of health poverty alleviation project from the perspective of vulnerability to poverty: evidence from five Chinese prefectures

Y Wei, Z Zhang, M Zhang - Global Health Action, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background The Health Poverty Alleviation Project (HPAP) has received
widespread attention as a primary means of preventing poverty caused by illness. However …

Disparities in Social Insurance Participation and Urban Identification Among In-situ Urbanized Residents in China

L Gong, J Chen - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2023 - Springer
China's in-situ urbanization implies a phenomenon where rural populations become new
urbanites as their land was reclassified as urban. While studies have suggested that social …

Multimorbidity and catastrophic health expenditure: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

H Li, E Chang, W Zheng, B Liu, J Xu, W Gu… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Population aging accompanied by multimorbidity imposes a great burden on
households and the healthcare system. This study aimed to determine the incidence and …

Changing inequity in health service utilization and financial burden among patients with hypertension in China: evidence from China Health and Retirement …

H Tang, M Li, LZ Liu, Y Zhou, X Liu - International Journal for Equity in …, 2023 - Springer
Background China initiated a health system reform in 2009 to achieve Universal Health
Coverage (UHC) by 2020. While the effectiveness of health-system reforms has been …