Analysis Of Influencing Factors On Elderly Health Care Consumption

With the economic development and the improvement of residents’ living standards,the average life expectancy has been extended,and the proportion of the elderly population has increased.The era of aging has arrived in our country,and the seniors have become an important group that cannot be ignored in the current society.Health care consumption occupies a very important position in all consumption of the elderly because of their special physiological and psychological state.The purpose of this article is to study the influencing factors of elderly health care consumption.We summarize relevant literature and research results,and construct the macro and micro index system for influencing factors of elderly health care consumption after full analysis and thinking.We obtain relevant data from "China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study" database and "National Bureau of Statistics",and perform a descriptive statistical analysis of the variables.The data structure shows that 80% of the elderly health care consumption expenditure is zero.Against the characteristics of the zero-inflation data,based on the two-part model principle,the health care consumption of the elderly is divided into two separate processes of health care consumption decision-making and health consumption expenditure,and their influencing factors are explored separately.Micro-factors at the individual level and macro-factors at the regional level are considered at the same time,and a hierarchical linear model is established to explore its impact on elderly health care consumption.A generalized partially linear additive model is constructed to further explore the micro-factors of the elderly care health consumption,and a more comprehensive and more realistic non-linear conclusion is obtained.By constructing the hierarchical linear model and the generalized partially linear additive model we know that the macro-factors of GDP per capita,consumer price index for health care,as well as age,gender,marital status,years of education,retirement status,household registration type,self-assessed health,loneliness,and in-kind support of children have significant linear effects on health care consumption decisions for the elderly.Chronic conditions,degree of depression,cognitive ability,household debt,number of child visits,and social status have significant non-linear effects on health care consumptiondecisions.The macro-factors of residents’ per capita disposable income,as well as age,work status,pension insurance,household registration type,degree of depression and household financial assets have significant linear effects on health care expenditure for the elderly.Years of education,in-kind support of children and number of child visits have significant non-linear effects on health care expenditure.This article expands the research field about elderly issues,and provides analytical perspectives for research on elderly health.It helps the elderly fully understand their own conditions,and establish a rational consumption for health products and services.Children should pay more attention to accompany their parents and give the elderly some emotional comfort.And it guide the health care product market to promote products and services in a targeted manner.This article calls on relevant social departments to pay attention to the physical and psychological needs of the elderly,do a good job in propagating and popularizing the rational consumption concept of health products,and strengthen the supervision of the health care product market to promote the stable and healthy development of the health care consumption market.