Repression in health service utilization and expenditure of the elderly in China
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counterfactual propensity score matching to examine repression of health service utilization and expenditure of the elderly in China. The results showed that whether the poor elderly in China visited a doctor when suffering an illness was not affected by income, but that their expenditures on medical treatment were significantly suppressed by income. The subgroup analysis further indicated that the medical demands of the female elderly, the older elderly, and the rural elderly were more likely to be suppressed by their income compared to their counterparts, respectively.
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