The Spatial Effect Analysis of Private Medical Care on Private Health Insurance Development in China

In recent years, China's private health insurance has achieved rapid development. The determinants of the development of private health insurance in China are still uncertain. This study investigated the impact of private medical care on the development of private health insurance, and particularly focused on its spillover eff ect. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2007 to 2017, a Spatial Durbin Model was performed to explore the relationship between private medical care and private health insurance development. The results show that: the development of private health insurance has the spillover eff ects and it promotes the development of private health insurance in adjacent areas; private medical care is associates with the development of private health insurance, and it impacts both density and depth of private health insurance; at the same time, private medical care has a signifi cant spatial spillover eff ect on the density of private health insurance in neighboring regions

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