Table 1.
Descriptions of characteristics among participants before and after China’s Rural Hospital Delivery Subsidy [ ± sd/n (%)]. : mean; sd: Standard Deviation.
| Variables | Before policy (n = 660) | After policy (n = 1738) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban | Rural | P | Urban | Rural | P | |
| Hospital delivery | ||||||
| No | 79 (35.43) | 236 (54.00) | <0.001 | 49 (6.9) | 86 (8.37) | 0.262 |
| Yes | 144 (64.57) | 201 (46.00) | 661 (93.10) | 942 (91.63) | ||
| Age (years) | ||||||
| ≤25 | 57 (25.56) | 147 (33.64) | <0.001 | 195 (27.46) | 350 (34.05) | <0.001 |
| 26–30 | 107 (47.98) | 137 (31.35) | 302 (42.54) | 332 (32.30) | ||
| ≥31 | 59 (26.46) | 153 (35.01) | 213 (30.00) | 346 (33.65) | ||
| Health score | 85.30 ± 8.59 | 85.41 ± 10.47 | 0.886 | 88.03 ± 8.25 | 86.98 ± 8.31 | 0.009 |
| Chronic disease | ||||||
| No | 215 (96.41) | 426 (97.48) | 0.437 | 683 (96.20) | 989 (96.21) | 0.992 |
| Yes | 8 (3.59) | 11 (2.52) | 27 (3.80) | 39 (3.79) | ||
| Annual personal expenditure (Chinese Yuan) | ||||||
| Poorest | 54 (24.32) | 249 (57.24) | <0.001 | 38 (5.35) | 143 (13.91) | <0.001 |
| Poorer | 56 (25.23) | 112 (25.75) | 85 (11.97) | 224 (21.79) | ||
| Middle | 55 (24.77) | 48 (11.03) | 130 (18.31) | 245 (23.83) | ||
| Richer | 40 (18.02) | 17 (3.91) | 169 (23.80) | 251 (24.42) | ||
| Richest | 17 (7.66) | 9 (2.07) | 288 (40.56) | 165 (16.05) | ||
| Parity | ||||||
| 1 | 193 (86.94) | 258 (59.58) | <0.001 | 432 (60.93) | 496 (48.39) | <0.001 |
| ≥2 | 29 (13.06) | 175 (40.42) | 277 (39.07) | 529 (51.61) | ||
| Prenatal visits | 7.67 ± 4.16 | 5.06 ± 2.70 | <0.001 | 6.36 ± 3.39 | 5.71 ± 2.56 | <0.001 |
| Education | ||||||
| ≤Primary school | 8 (3.59) | 133 (30.57) | <0.001 | 78 (11.02) | 232 (22.59) | <0.001 |
| Middle school | 84 (37.67) | 245 (56.32) | 371 (52.40) | 620 (60.37) | ||
| ≥High school | 131 (58.74) | 57 (13.10) | 259 (36.58) | 175 (17.04) | ||
| Employment | ||||||
| No | 99 (44.39) | 65 (14.87) | <0.001 | 220 (30.99) | 156 (15.18) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 124 (55.61) | 372 (85.13) | 490 (69.01) | 872 (84.82) | ||
| Health insurance | ||||||
| No | 45 (20.18) | 11 (2.52) | <0.001 | 87 (12.25) | 27 (2.63) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 178 (79.82) | 426 (97.48) | 623 (87.75) | 1001 (97.37) | ||