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Table 8 Horizontal inequity index of health service utilisation

From: The effects of China’s urban basic medical insurance schemes on the equity of health service utilisation: evidence from Shaanxi Province

 

UEBMI

URBMI

 

Outpatient utilisation

Inpatient utilisation

Outpatient utilisation

Inpatient utilisation

Insured

    

 CI

0.1225

0.1372

-0.2082

0.1590

 Contribution of health need

-0.0031

0.0150

-0.0489

-0.0341

HI index

0.1256

0.1222

-0.1593

0.1931

(0.0249, 0.3230)

(0.0154, 0.3315)

(-0.2626, 0.0432)

(0.0887, 0.3977)

Uninsured

    

 CI

-0.0615

0.2971

0.0894

0.3153

 Contribution of health need

-0.0104

0.0225

-0.0073

-0.0046

HI index

-0.0511

0.2746

0.0967

0.3199

 

(-0.0833, 0.0120)

(0.1358, 0.5467)

(0.0486, 0.1910)

(0.1655, 0.6225)

  1. Notes: CI - concentration index; HI - horizontal inequity. 95% confidence intervals of HI index are in the parentheses.