The effect of the health poverty alleviation project on financial risk protection for rural residents: evidence from Chishui City, China

Chen, Chu; Pan, Jay

doi:10.1186/s12939-019-0982-6

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 1 Description of key variables

From: The effect of the health poverty alleviation project on financial risk protection for rural residents: evidence from Chishui City, China

Variables	Treatment group	Control group	Statistic	p
Variables	Mean	Mean	Statistic	p
OOP payments
Preintervention	369.920	438.992	−4.843^a	<0.001
Postintervention	250.737	315.442	−6.143^a	<0.001
Occurrence of catastrophic health expenditure
Preintervention	0.143	0.070	420.074^b	<0.001
Postintervention	0.070	0.063	4.660^b	0.031
Occurrence of impoverishing health spending
Preintervention	0.138	0.015	1600^b	<0.001
Postintervention	0.017	0.007	69.412^b	<0.001
Number of Males per household
Preintervention	1.742	1.697	−0.024^a	0.981
Postintervention	1.754	1.713	−1.292^a	0.196
Household size
Preintervention	3.568	3.472	−4.476^a	<0.001
Postintervention	3.589	3.498	−4.210^a	<0.001
Number of people aged 65 and above per household
Preintervention	0.867	0.850	−2.371^a	0.017
Postintervention	0.997	0.963	−3.920^a	0.001
Number of people aged 14 and below per household
Preintervention	0.581	0.555	−1.804^a	0.071
Postintervention	0.469	0.463	0.513^a	0.608
Annual inpatient visits in each types of institutions per household
Preintervention
Township health center	0.121	0.103	−3.243^a	0.001
Hospital in Chishui	0.312	0.263	−3.690^a	<0.001
Hospital out of Chishui	0.094	0.086	−0.159^a	0.873
Postintervention
Township health center	0.233	0.160	−8.007^a	<0.001
Hospital in Chishui	0.475	0.342	−10.018^a	<0.001
Hospital out of Chishui	0.080	0.085	3.569^a	<0.001
Annual outpatient visits in each types of institutions per household
Preintervention
Village clinic	2.553	2.600	−2.960^a	0.003
Township health center	1.183	0.958	−3.690^a	<0.001
Hospital	0.139	0.112	− 0.159^a	0.873
Postintervention
Village clinic	2.619	2.772	−1.729^a	0.083
Township health center	1.417	1.140	−10.018^a	<0.001
Hospital	0.117	0.104	3.569^a	<0.001

Notes on superscripts: (1) “a” denotes the statistic of Mann–Whitney U test. (2) “b” denotes the statistic of Chi-square test

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