The Effect of Medical Insurance on the Physical Function Health of the Elderly under Different Marital Status

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmhs.202405215

Author(s)

Wenbo Zhang1, Jiayao Deng2, Shuyi Bu3, Qingfeng Bu2,*

Affiliation(s)

1College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA 2School of Medical Instruments, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health, Shanghai, China 3Yangpu Senior High School, Shanghai, China *Corresponding author

Abstract

In order to further improve China's medical insurance system and better protect the health rights and interests of the elderly under different marital status, this paper combines the data of China Health and Pension Tracking Survey (CHARLS), uses Logit regression analysis and propensity score matching method to analyze the medical insurance system implemented since 1998. Whether it has an impact on the physical function health of the elderly in different marital states. In this paper, the marital status of the elderly aged 65 and above in 2018 is divided into married and unmarried states, in which the married and surviving spouse means married, and married widows, divorces and lifelong single are all classified as unmarried. The self-rated health of the elderly reflects their physical function health, so as to conduct an empirical study. It is concluded that medical insurance has a positive effect on the physical function health of the elderly under different marital status, and the effect on unmarried elderly is greater than that on married elderly. To this end, this paper puts the following suggestions.

Keywords

Medical Insurance; Physical Function Health; Different Marital Status

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