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Does Medical Insurance Integration Reduce Frailty Risk? Evidence From Rural Older Adults in China

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  • Fan Yang
  • Yujia Guo

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ObjectivesThis study aimed to assess the impacts of China’s health insurance integration reform on frailty among rural older adults.MethodsNationally representative longitudinal data with 2,751 adults aged ≥60 years were analyzed from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2011–2015. The integration of the rural New Cooperative Medical Scheme and urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance into the unified Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI). Frailty Index (FI) summarizes 32 health deficits, quantifying frailty severity with a range of 0–1. Frailty is defined as FI ≥ 0.25, prefrailty as FI: 0.10–0.25, and robustness as FI

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  • Fan Yang & Yujia Guo, 2024. "Does Medical Insurance Integration Reduce Frailty Risk? Evidence From Rural Older Adults in China," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 79(9), pages 377-385.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:79:y:2024:i:9:p:377-385.
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