Joo Heesoo, Liang Di
1 Department of Economics, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA.
2 Department of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Int J Stroke. 2017 Feb;12(2):205-207. doi: 10.1177/1747493016675501. Epub 2016 Oct 28.
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in China, frequently resulting in the need for informal care. No information, however, is available on costs of informal care associated with stroke, required to understand the true cost of stroke in China. Using the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we identified 4447 respondents aged ≥65 years suitable for analyses, including 184 stroke survivors. We estimated the economic burden of informal care associated with stroke using a two-part model. The monthly number of hours of informal caregiving associated with stroke was 29.2 h/stroke survivor, and the average annual cost of informal care associated with stroke was 10,612 RMB per stroke survivor. The findings stress the necessity of proper interventions to prevent stroke and will be useful for estimating the economic burden of stroke.
中风是中国导致残疾的主要原因，常常致使需要非正式照护。然而，关于中风相关的非正式照护成本，目前尚无可用信息，而了解中国中风的真实成本需要这些信息。利用2011年中国健康与养老追踪调查，我们确定了4447名年龄≥65岁适合进行分析的受访者，其中包括184名中风幸存者。我们使用两部分模型估计了与中风相关的非正式照护的经济负担。与中风相关的每月非正式照护时长为每位中风幸存者29.2小时，与中风相关的非正式照护的年均成本为每位中风幸存者10,612元人民币。这些发现强调了采取适当干预措施预防中风的必要性，并且将有助于估计中风的经济负担。
