Health Care Utilization After Economic Reform in Mainland China: A Multinomial Logit Approach
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The support & expansion of traditional Chinese medicine as a policy directive since the early 1950s resulted from the fear on the part of the Chinese government that Western medicine would supplant Chinese medicine. The Chinese government expanded Chinese medicine by subsidizing traditional hospitals; however, many of these hospitals have been operating as a deficit since the institution of economic reforms in the early 1980s. There is a concern that many traditional hospitals lose large numbers of outpatients to competing modern Western hospitals, which have better equipment & more qualified staff. The objective of this paper is to examine whether a reduction in Chinese medicine outpatient services is a result of people's preferences. A multinomial logit model is applied to data from a 1989 China Health & Nutrition Survey. The major finding is that most demographic factors do not cause significant variations in Chinese medical service choices. Even when suffering a serious illness, people do not appear to prefer Western medicine to Chinese medicine. A potential counterhypothesis offered is that a decrease in Chinese medicine use may be due to inefficient management. 3 Tables, 22 References. Adapted from the source document.
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Chen, Chin-Shyan
Liu, Tsai-Ching
2001
Issues & Studies
37
3
87-104
1013-2511
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