The Study on Medical Care Seeking Behavior of Farmers in Different Income Levels under the New Rural Co-operative Medical System:Based on Data of Farmers in Jiangsu Province

This study used the survey data of 333 farmers in three areas of Jiangsu province, and analyzed medical care seeking behavior of farmers in different income levels. The results found that the visiting probability of high family income farmer is lower than low family income farmer. A large proportion of outpatient samples tend to choose village clinic, because of the near distance. A large proportion of inpatient sample tend to choose county hospital, because of the good treatment effect. The suggestions were that government should strengthen the building of village clinic and improve the health service ability; increase the income of farmers and improve health care and disease prevention awareness; improve medical reimbursement ratio and reduce farmer ego ratio; speed up the convergence progress of new rural co-operative medical system and medical assistance system and increase the medical assistance for the poor farmers.