Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Care Consumption: Using the 2018-China Family Panel Studies
2022
Enkai Guo | Huamei Zhong | Yang Gao | Jing Li | Zhaohong Wang
The existing research on residents&rsquo: health care consumption mostly covers medical care consumption and seldom regards residents&rsquo: health care consumption as an independent research object. This article takes residents&rsquo: healthcare consumption as the research object and aims to explore the impact of socioeconomic status on healthcare consumption and its mechanisms. The data of this study came from the 2018-China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The binary probit regression model and the Tobit model explored the impact mechanism of residents&rsquo: income, education, occupation, and physical activity on health care consumption decision-making and health care expenditure, respectively. The research results showed that, from the perspective of the direct influence mechanism, residents&rsquo: work income (0.029, p <: 0.01) and education level (811.149, p <: 0.01) had a significant positive impact on health care consumption. Residents whose occupations (&minus:99.697, p <: 0.01) tend to be more skilled and also have higher health care consumption. From the perspective of the mediating mechanism, residents&rsquo: physical exercise duration had a significant positive impact on their participation in healthcare consumption (0.005, p <: 0.01) but had a weaker impact on healthcare consumption expenditure (21.678, p <: 0.1). In general, socioeconomic status represented by income, education, and occupation had a significant positive impact on residents&rsquo: health care consumption. The duration of physical exercise also played an important mediating role.
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