Role of the new rural cooperative medical system in alleviating catastrophic medical payments for hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease in poor rural areas of China

Table 3 Prevalence (%) of fundamental poverty and the pre- and post-reimbursement (via the NRCMS) impoverishment caused by medical payments for hypertension, stroke and CHD among the families under review

Variables	Hypertension (n = 947)	Stroke (n = 110)	CHD (n = 149)	Total (n = 1176)	Statistics^#
H _pov	40.9	44.5	51.0	42.5	χ2 = 5.636, P = 0.060
Pre-reimbursement H _H-pov	45.6	60.9	64.4	49.4	χ2 = 24.712, P < 0.001
Post-reimbursement H _H-pov	45.2	56.4	61.1	48.2	χ2 = 16.251, P < 0.001
Declines	0.4	4.5	3.3	1.2
Statistics ^{^}	χ2 = 0.019, P = 0.890	χ2 = 0.334, P = 0.563	χ2 = 0.469, P = 0.494	χ2 = 0.359, P = 0.549

^#The Pearson chi-squared test was used to compare the incidence of household poverty among families with members suffering from hypertension, stroke and CHD.
^{^}The Pearson chi-squared test was used to compare the incidence of household poverty before and after NRCMS reimbursement.

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