Prevalence and Intensity of Catastrophic Health Expenditure Among Residents in a Multiethnic Province in China: Cross-Sectional Study
Wenning Sun, Shilong Zhang, Xingli Ma, Yuguo Ye, Zucheng Fang, Yuxing Zheng, Gang Cheng, Qingyue Meng, Haipeng Wang, Amaryllis Mavragani, Travis Sanchez, Xin Wang, Xi Chen · 2025
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When medical bills eat more than forty percent of what a household can pay, health spending turns catastrophic. Wenning Sun and co-authors measure that cliff in Hainan province in China in a 2025 survey study. Their data cover 14,532 adults from the 2023 provincial health services survey.
Catastrophic expenditure struck 8.37 percent of residents, at a median intensity near eighteen percent above the threshold. Older residents, the unmarried, and people with chronic illness faced the highest odds, more than doubling for chronic disease. Quantile analysis showed the weight of the burden falls unevenly across households. In a multiethnic free-trade province held up as a pilot, the authors frame the numbers as an equity report card for ongoing reform.
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| CREATOR | Wenning Sun, Shilong Zhang, Xingli Ma, Yuguo Ye, Zucheng Fang, Yuxing Zheng, Gang Cheng, Qingyue Meng, Haipeng Wang, Amaryllis Mavragani, Travis Sanchez, Xin Wang, Xi Chen |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |