Demand of Floating Population for Health Service and the Utilization in One District of Beijing
Objective To investigate the status of the floating population's demand for health service and utilization, as well as the influencing factors in Beijing; and put forth policy suggestions. Methods The multistage stratified sampling was taken to recruit 1 239 subjects of floating population from three towns of a district where most dense population of floating people live there in Beijing. Among them a questionnaire survey was conducted and the collected data were analyzed by Chi- Square and Logistic regression analysis. Results Two - week morbidity rate, visiting rate, and non - visiting rate of those subjects who needed to visit were 13. 08% , 9. 85% and 42. 73% respectively. Hospitalization rate per year was 5. 89% and the average of hospitalized days was 8. 54. The average medical cost for each outpatient was RMB 313. 97 Yuan and the average cost for each time of hospitalization was RMB 2 947. 00 Yuan. Multivariate statistical analysis showed that average monthly family income, insurance and age were the main factors that affected the utilization of health services ( P < 0. 05 ) . Conclusion It is necessary to establish a medical insurance system suitable for the floating population's demands, reduce the health care costs, enhance the health knowledge education for the floating population through community administrators and lead them to utilize the community health services reasonably.