The influence of the rural health security schemes on health utilization and household impoverishment in rural China: data from a household survey of western and central China

Table 5 Distribution of household impoverishment and the impact of NRCMS across all subgroups (N = 3333)

Variables	Poverty Headcount			Poverty Gap
	Pre-payment (%)	* Incidence of medical impoverishment (%)	** Proportion of HIHS avoided by NRCMS (%)	Pre-payment (%)	* Intensity of medical impoverishment (IMI) (%)	** Proportion of IMI reduced by NRCMS (%)
Household per capita expenditure (Quintiles)
Lowest	56.1	21.3	0.7	17.36	14.1	1.9
2^nd	0.0	12.1	6.2	0.00	3.5	8.6
3^rd	0.0	3.5	13.8	0.00	1.1	18.2
4^th	0.0	3.2	38.1	0.00	1.2	42.9
Highest	0.0	0.8	60.0	0.00	0.3	62.0
Household chronic disease proportion
0	12.6	3.8	2.0	3.7	1.7	1.9
≤0.5	9.0	8.3	3.8	2.6	3.8	4.3
>0.5	12.3	19.6	4.3	5.1	10.8	5.2
Household size (Persons)
≤3	11.4	9.5	3.1	4.0	5.3	4.8
4-6	10.9	6.6	3.5	2.8	2.4	5.0
>6	15.4	5.1	0.0	2.7	5.0	0.4
Duration of NRCMS and MFA implementation
<3 years	10.2	7.5	2.8	3.2	3.8	4.3
≥3 years	13.1	9.5	3.8	4.0	4.4	5.7

Note: * Incidence of medical impoverishment and Intensity of medical impoverishment (IMI) equal d and h in Table 4, respectively; ** Proportion of HIHS and IMI reduced by NRCMS equal f and i in Table 4, respectively;
Distribution analysis indicated that all χ² and ANOVA results were significant (p < 0.05).

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