Table 8. Effect of UEBMI on health services utilisation by the level of hospitals.
Level of Hospitals | Propensity Score Matching | Coarsened Exact Matching | ||||||
UEBMI | Uninsured | χ2 statistics | P value | UEBMI | Uninsured | χ2 statistics | P value | |
Panel A - Any outpatient visit in the past two weeks | ||||||||
Clinics | 2.95 | 0.84 | 5.62 | 0.018 | 1.46 | 1.08 | 0.50 | 0.478 |
Community health service center | 1.69 | 0.84 | 1.33 | 0.248 | 2.78 | 0.61 | 10.32 | 0.001 |
District level or above | 3.80 | 2.11 | 2.32 | 0.128 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 0.01 | 0.976 |
Total | 8.44 | 3.80 | 8.79 | 0.003 | 5.76 | 3.23 | 6.21 | 0.013 |
Panel B - Any hospitalisation in the past year | ||||||||
District level or below | 2.95 | 1.69 | 1.65 | 0.199 | 2.22 | 1.84 | 0.31 | 0.578 |
City level | 1.90 | 1.05 | 1.14 | 0.285 | 1.84 | 0.77 | 3.50 | 0.061 |
Provincial/National level | 0.42 | 1.05 | 1.31 | 0.253 | 0.82 | 0.77 | 0.02 | 0.895 |
Total | 5.49 | 3.80 | 1.49 | 0.222 | 4.94 | 3.38 | 2.61 | 0.106 |
N | 474 | 474 | 1580 | 651 |
Note: Chi-square test was used to testify the significant difference.