Xu Xiaocang, Huang Xiuquan, Zhang Xiaolu, Chen Linhong
Upper Yangtze River Economic Research Center/School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, 400067, Chongqing, China.
Upper Yangtze River Economic Research Center, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China.
Healthcare (Basel). 2019 Aug 21;7(3):99. doi: 10.3390/healthcare7030099.
Chronic diseases among the elderly and their huge economic burden on family have caught much attention from economists and sociologists over the past decade in China. This study measured the economic burden of elderly chronic disease (ECD) in families using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) data set from Peking University (China). We studied some aspects of this burden, including health-service utilization, out-of-pocket expenditure on inpatient and outpatient, total family expenditures on items, and labor force participation rates of family members, etc. Some interesting things were found, for example, the additional annual expenditure on inpatient care (per member) in ECD-families was 37 to 45 percent of the annual expenditure in the control group; the labor-force participation rate in ECD-families was 2.4 to 3.3 percent of points lower than in the control group.
在过去十年里，中国老年人的慢性病及其给家庭带来的巨大经济负担引起了经济学家和社会学家的广泛关注。本研究利用北京大学的中国健康与养老追踪调查（CHARLS）数据集，对家庭中老年人慢性病（ECD）的经济负担进行了测量。我们研究了这一负担的一些方面，包括医疗服务利用情况、住院和门诊的自付费用、家庭在各项物品上的总支出以及家庭成员的劳动力参与率等。研究发现了一些有趣的现象，例如，患有老年人慢性病家庭的住院护理年度额外支出（人均）是对照组年度支出的37%至45%；患有老年人慢性病家庭的劳动力参与率比对照组低2.4至3.3个百分点。
