Funding for this research was provided by:
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2019 Project of Total Health Expenditure Accounting in Inner Mongolia, China)
Inner Mongolia Medical University Duxue Talent Program (ZY0301012)
Scientific Research Starting Foundation for Doctoral Scholars at Inner Mongolia Medical University (YKD2019BSJJ008)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2020
Accepted: 24 November 2021
First Online: 11 December 2021
Declarations
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: For this research, we used a publicly available secondary dataset with all individual identifiers removed prior to making the dataset available publicly. No ethical approval was required due to the type and nature of the dataset used.
: No applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.