Research On Resident's Hospitalization Expenditure And Affecting Factors In Weihai City

With the dramatic development of Chinese economy, the continuous improvement of resident's living status and the deep promotion of reform on health system, changes have taken place accordingly in the fields of health demands, health utilizations and the cost of health service of the residents. And all of these require more development for health enterprise.In order to carry out the government's new health policy, to regulate the health resources efficiently and rationally, and to satisfy the resident's demand on health service, Weihai Health Bureau and the Institute of Social Medicine and Health Management of Shangdong University jointly conducted a project titled "Research on health service in Weihai city" in January of 2005.As a part of the project, the aim of this study is to analyze different resident's hospitalization expenditure distribution as well as influencing factors so as to provide policy information and opinions to better meet the resident's demand on hospitalization and the deep promotion of health system reform.Stratum-based random sampling method was used to select samples in the project. First we divided all the townships within each county and district of Weihai city into three categories based on the level of socio-economic development. We randomly selected one township from each category and each district. Then, 6 medium size villages were randomly selected from each sampled township. Lastly, 120 households were randomly selected from each...