The Socio-Economic Study On Injury Of Rural Residents

BackgroundThe improvement of social-economic status is very important to achieve the goal of constructing a harmonious and well-to-do society in rural areas. Reinforcing the study on the rural health works especially the health status of rural residents has become one of the main contents of building the rural social insurance system.In rural China, the rank orders of injury in the sequence of disease, death reason and the reason of hospitalization have increased in recent years. Poisoning and trauma has become a familiar disease that occurs frequently and injury has become an important public health problem in rural areas.The epidemiological studies on injury in China were mainly preliminary studies and the scope of those studies was limited. Socio-economic study on injury of rural residents, as well as the study on equity in health outcomes, health service utilization and health finance were never seen, on the other hand, studies on injury of the whole population in rural areas were also seldom seen.Major objectivesThe Main objectives of this study were to analyze the risk factors of injury and calculate the economic burden of injury on the basis of the analysis on the health status and the epidemiology of injury of rural residents; the influencing factors of economic burden were then analyzed. Comparisons were done to determine whether inequity exists in health outcomes, health service utilization and health financing, as well as the degree of inequities. Some indexes were established to calculate the potential economic burden of both injury patients and other patients. Based on the analysis above, some suggestions about health policy and social insurance systems were then put forward.MethodsMuti-stratified random sampling method together with systematic sampling was used to select the rural households, and information was then collected by face-to-face...