Open Access<p>A Triple-Difference Approach to Re-Evaluating the Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Incidences of Chronic Diseases Among Older Adults in Rural Communities</p>
Author(s) -
Qihui Chen,
Xueling Chu,
Shuzhen Wang,
Bo Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s244021
Subject(s) - medicine , china , difference in differences , population , chronic disease , demography , gerontology , disease , environmental health , family medicine , geography , pathology , archaeology , sociology , economics , econometrics
This paper re-evaluates the impacts of China's New Cooperative Medicine Scheme (NCMS), a social health insurance program targeting China's rural population, on the incidences of chronic diseases among its enrollees. Although coverage under the NCMS expanded rapidly following its implementation in 2003, previous studies have failed to reach a consensus on its health impacts. Existing conflicting results may be due to methodological problems such as implausible identification assumptions and the failure to focus on the most relevant beneficiaries.