The suburban farmers’ understanding of health care policy

Abstract

Based on the factual survey, this article investigates and analyzes the awareness and knoledgement of the suburban farmers nowadays in terms of: the understanding of types of social insurances, knowledgement of health insurance, knowledge level of issues relating to the health care policies, people's information receiving channel of social security and health insurance today. The analysis bases on the surveyed evidences from the plot correlations such as: gender, age, education, profession, family size, marriage status and living standard. From the sociological analysis, it can be found that the current people’s  knowledgement of social insurances in general, of health insurance in particullar is very constrained. A significant portion of population doesn’t have any knowlegement or have a unilateral, or even wrong understanding of social insurance and health insurance. Most of the population has a dimly hearing about or partial understanding of the law, policies, guidelines in this field. One of the main reasons for this fact is the unattainable and limited propaganda and communication of social insurance, health insurance.