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premium and threshold benefits coverage for hospitalization expenditures at each experimental county |
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| Regions |
Minimum premium medical insurance coverage (Mean ± SD) |
Threshold benefit insured coverage |
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| Clinics |
County hospitals |
Hospitals above county level |
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| Economically less developed regions |
188.00 ± 55.73 |
320.00 ± 63.25 |
480.00 ± 122.93 |
5930.00 ± 2061.31 |
| Economically developed regions |
296.15 ± 116.30 |
503.85 ± 165.15 |
742.31 ± 165.15 |
22846.15 ± 20099.11 |
| P-Value |
0.118 |
0.054 |
0.132 |
0.005 |
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Insurance costs are represented in RMB. * Exchange rate during the last 2 years: 1 USD = 8 RMB Jan 2006; 1 USD = 7.46 RMB Sept 2007, | ||||
Dib et al. International Journal for Equity in Health 2008 7:17 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-17 |
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