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 6 Determinants of medical impoverishment with and without the schemes (N = 3333)

Variables	Impoverishment before reimbursement		Escaping impoverishment after reimbursement
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Household per capita expenditure (Quintiles)
Lowest	339.13	(128.52, 894.89)^‡	0.00	(0, 0.02) ^‡
2nd	26.9	(10.51, 68.83) ^‡	0.04	(0, 0.35) ^‡
3rd	5.07	(1.87, 13.72) ^‡	0.16	(0.02, 1.76)
4th	4.12	(1.51, 11.24) ^‡	0.94	(0.09, 9.36)
Highest	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Household chronic disease proportion
0	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
≤0.5	4.28	(2.83, 6.47) ^‡	0.12	(0.02, 0.67) ^†
>0.5	16.84	(10.30, 27.54) ^‡	0.04	(0.01, 0.25) ^‡
Education level of household head
None	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Primary school	0.62	(0.41, 0.94)^†	3.37	(0.78, 14.55)
Junior high school	0.46	(0.28, 0.74) ^‡	1.71	(0.26, 11.4)
Senior high school or above	0.38	(0.16, 0.88) ^‡	45.1	(2.37, 860.2) ^†
Age of household head
<65	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
≥65	2.11	(1.34, 3.32) ^‡	0.49	(0.11, 2.16)
Occupation of household head
Farmer	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Non-Farmer	1.25	(0.62, 2.52)	1.49	(0.28, 7.96)
Unemployed	1.96	(1.09, 3.52) ^†	0.48	(0.04, 5.78)
Duration of NRCMS and MFA implementation
<3 years	1	Reference	1.00	Reference
≥3 years	1.54	(1.11, 2.15) ^†	1.39	(0.45, 4.29)

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