Analysis of the Population Characteristics of Peasant Household and Health Investment in Poor Areas

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10.2991/icmesd-17.2017.72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Peasant household, Population characteristics, Health investment.

Abstract

By using the survey data collected in the process of investigating the situation for the old peasant households in the county below the national poverty line, the author analyzes health investment level of the peasant household with different domestic population characteristics in XiaoChang and HongAn county of Hubei province, therefore finds out that the impact of family sex ratio to the farmers health investment is not significant , also knows that the family population scale and family population burden have significant influence on the farmers health investment level, the overall health investment level of all the households has been continuously promoted with the population expansion , but households' per capita health investment level remarkable shows the opposite trend. The author concludes that The health investment level of family is being significantly raised with the generation number increased and the level for the households which burdens less is the highest and that of the pure labor family or farmers is the least. Finally, several relevant resolutions and suggestions can be read in the following.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 17)
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