Study On Influence Factors Of Chinese Rural Residents To Participate In New Type Rural Cooperative Medical System

As the reform process continues to advance, urban-rural dualistic structure and ageing of thepopulation as hindering the development of the major social, economic, political reasons.Compared to elderly residents in the rural and the old people in the urban, poverty-returningphenomenon of poverty resulting from sickness or disease are very serious. Therefore, it issignificant to rely on the medical insurance of rural senior citizens’ standard of living. Ruralmedical insurance system is a part of China’s social security which is to solve the medicalinsurance of rural residents. So that the majority of farmers especially in middle-and-old-ageresidents are eligible for the rural medical insurance, meet the basic needs and protect againsthealth risks. This is one of the important steps of China’s economic construction.The objective of this research is the Chinese rural elderly residents. It is based on the ChinaHealth and Retirement Longitudinal Study2011national baseline survey data. The group mainlyincludes middle-aged and elderly people aged over45with their spouses,(13369people). Amongthem, the data of rural residents in the eastern part is4739,4102in the Central and4528in theWest. This study uses binary choice Logit model empirical analysis which would be applied toanalyze the influence factors of China senior residents participating in the Chinese ruralcooperation medical system. This paper argues that whether rural residents take part in theChinese rural cooperation medical system including the following factors: gender, age, educationage, household size, family per capita income, self-rated health status of the population, whetherenjoying medical reimbursement and whether to participate in the labor. However, it is notsignificant that martial status, major disease rate of cancer and smoking would affect theparticipation. It can be concluded that there are differences in gender variable, household size,self-rated health status of the population, enjoyment of medical reimbursement in these threeregions. While the variable estimation results in education, participation in the labor and thefamily per capita income are consistent in the same regions of the country. Add some policyrecommendations briefly according to the statistics. With the compensation surface expanding,increasing levels of compensation and benefits as much as possible at the same time. Set up aflexible financing mechanism to ensure that the rural cooperative medical insurance has the cashguarantee and so on.