Economic burden of hypertension and diabetes patients and compensation by New Rural Medical System in rural areas

Objective To analyze economic burden of hypertension and diabetes patients and its compensation by New Rural Medical Syetem.Methods By multi-stage stratified random sampling method,20 087 people were selected from 40 admin is trative villages of eight counties in Shandong province.Face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted and 2 112 hypertension and 201 diabetes patients were found.Results Of all patients,96.2% of hypertension and 93.9% of diabetes were covered by New Rural Medical System;the expenditure of the latest treatment of hypertension and diabetes was 126.1 yuan and 459.7 Yuan,respectively.14.41% of hypertension and 22.9% of diabetes patients got compensation from New Rural Medical System.The average amounts of compensation were 385.53 Yuan and 162.68 Yuan,respectively.Conclusion The rural residents have heavy economic burden of non-communicable diseases and the compensation of New Rural Medical System needs to be improved.