Income-related Health Inequality And Its Decomposition

With the development of human society,people's health has also received more attention and improved,but at the same time,there are obvious differences in the development of health level between countries and regions.China's rapid economic development has become a powerful engine driving world economic development.The health condition of Chinese residents has been greatly improved,and the average life expectancy has been greatly increased.However,the improvement of the overall health level does not mean the equality of health.The problem of health inequality has become increasingly prominent,and health inequality has become a social problem that must be paid attention to and improved.This paper mainly USES the data of China Institute For Income Distribution(CHIP)2008 and 2013,and adopts the centralized index method to measure the degree of health inequality in China in 2008 and 2013 respectively,and the health inequality has been improved from 2008 to 2013.The use of logit to do health inequality includes the regression of health status inequality and medical burden inequality with various factors,and the use of oaxaca-type method to do the decomposition of the effect of various factors.The results show that income is the main influencing factor of both health status inequality and medical burden inequality.The promotion of medical insurance has significantly improved the health inequality,and the medical security work performance is remarkable.Based on the research results of this paper,policy Suggestions are put forward from the aspects of promoting the improvement of income distribution mechanism,perfecting medical security system,popularizing medical care knowledge and narrowing regional differences.