GAO Yuchen 1,2 , XIONG Yao 1,2 , XU Cheng 1,2 , DOU Qingyu 3 , DONG Birong 3,4
  • 1. School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, P.R.China;
  • 2. Center of Health Policy and Governance Research, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, P.R.China;
  • 3. Geriatric Medical Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P.R.China;
  • 4. National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P.R.China;
DOU Qingyu, Email: ddqqking@126.com; DONG Birong, Email: birongdong@163.com
China; Long-term care insurance; Purchase willingness rate; Meta-analysis; Cross-sectional study; Geriatrics
10.7507/1672-2531.202105014
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Objective To systematically review the purchase willingness rate and influencing factors of long-term care insurance in Chinese population.Methods CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data, EMbase and PubMed databases were electronically searched to collect cross-sectional studies on the purchase willingness rate of long-term care insurance in China from inception to March 2021. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. Meta-analysis was then performed using Stata 16.0 software.Results A total of 66 cross-sectional studies involving 151 231 subjects were included. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the purchase willingness rate of long-term care insurance in China was 52.4% (95%CI 48.1% to 56.8%). Subgroup analysis showed that: among the sample characteristic factors, residents who were from the central region of China (56.4%), being studied after 2016 (53.3%), and residing in pilot regions (53.1%) had a higher willingness rate to purchase long-term care insurance. Among demographic factors, the research considered factors of residence and family size (56.2%) contributed to a higher willingness to purchase long-term care insurance, and residents with monthly income from 1 000 yuan to 5 000 yuan (55.4%) and who were unmarried (55.3%) had a higher willingness to purchase long-term care insurance. Among health and concept factors, the research considered factors of insurance and government trust (57.3%), factor of number of chronic diseases (55.0%), and factor of health risk cognition (52.4%) contributed to a higher willingness to purchase long-term care insurance. Among the factors of long-term care insurance system, factor of the government subsidy (60.6%), factor of long-term care insurance price (58.0%) and factor of payment methods (56.2%) contributed a higher willingness to purchase long-term care insurance.Conclusions Current evidence shows that over half of residents are willing to purchase long-term care insurance. However, different factors still affect their purchase willingness. The influencing factors reflect numerous difficulties in the current long-term care insurance system, which requires attention and continuous improvement of policy formulators and related researchers.

Citation： GAO Yuchen, XIONG Yao, XU Cheng, DOU Qingyu, DONG Birong. Purchase willingness rate of long-term care insurance in China: a meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2021, 21(8): 953-963. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202105014 Copy

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