加强贫困人口医疗救助研究的必要性分析

贫困人群有其自身的人口学和社会经济学特征,在面对健康风险时,具有较大的脆弱性.因病致贫、因病返贫和因贫致病在我国贫困地区已形成一种恶性循环.当前我国城镇职工医疗保险与新型合作医疗在低收入人群的覆盖面窄、筹资渠道不畅、保障受益面小,而低收入人群健康风险大,低收入人群的医疗需求相对下降.对于贫困人口医疗救助存在的共性问题是:贫困人口的确定问题、资金的筹集与管理、医疗救助的内容与力度、如何建立贫困人口医疗救助的长效机制问题.

Analysis on the Necessity of Strengthening Research on Medical Assistance for Poverty-stricken Population

Because of the demographic and social economic characteristics of poverty-stricken population, they are vulnerable by disease risk. The disease-eaused poverty and poverty-eaused disease forms a vicious circle in poor area of China. Currently the employee medical insurance in town and the new rural cooperative medical scheme have not widely covered the population with low income. And there are many other problems, including some hindrances of financing channel, the financing is not enough, and the beneficial population is incomprehensive. However, the poor has great disease risks and descendent medical demands. There are common problems of medical assistance for poverty-stricken population, such as how to definite the poverty-stricken population, how to raise and manage funds, the content and strength of medical assistance, how to establish persistent mechanisms, and so on.