Department of Insurance, School of Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China.
Department of Insurance and Actuarial Science, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Feb 7;9:837431. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.837431. eCollection 2021.
Health equality is an essential component of social justice, and the social policies should be as conducive to promoting health equality as possible. Based on the data from China, this article uses the regression discontinuity design method and the technique of decomposition of concentration index to examine whether the social pension schemes can significantly reduce health inequality among the residents, and tries to compute the contribution rate of pension benefit in alleviating the health inequality. Our results show that the pension benefit can improve the health level of the rural subscribers, especially for the low-income population. Implement of New Rural Pension Scheme contributes to reducing the health inequality among the rural elderly with contribution rate of 39.32%. Our results contain important policy implications.
健康平等是社会公正的重要组成部分，社会政策应尽可能有利于促进健康平等。本文基于中国的数据，运用回归不连续设计方法和集中指数分解技术，考察了社会养老金计划是否能显著降低居民的健康不平等，并尝试计算了养老金待遇在缓解健康不平等方面的贡献率。结果表明，养老金待遇可以提高农村参保人员的健康水平，特别是对低收入人群。新农保的实施有助于降低农村老年人的健康不平等，贡献率为 39.32%。我们的研究结果具有重要的政策意义。
