近些年,我国医疗卫生事业发展速度较快,医疗卫生水平不断提高,居民的健康水平也有了显著提高,但由于政府在卫生方面的投入不足,医疗费用上涨过快,慢病等大病发病率的增高,居民个人的医疗费用负担过重等原因,严重影响了其基本生活质量,导致了灾难性卫生支出的发生。本文以灾难性卫生支出为检索词,在中国知网和万方数据库中检索了相关文献。通过文献阅读与分析,总结了当前我国灾难性卫生支出的研究现状,包括定义、国家的政策、各地的应对方式、国外的政策实施以及其他研究内容,同时对其进行分析并有所启示。 In recent years, the rapid development of medical and health undertakings in our country has led to the continuous improvement of the medical and health care standards and the remarkable improvement in the residents’ health standards. However, due to the government’s inadequate investment in health care, the rapid increase of medical expenses and the incidence of serious illnesses such as chronic diseases , And the overburdened medical expenses of residents and other factors have seriously affected their basic quality of life and led to catastrophic health spending. In this paper, catastrophic health expenditures as a search term, the Chinese net and Wanfang database retrieved the relevant literature. Through literature review and analysis, the current research status of catastrophic health expenditure in China is summarized, including definitions, national policies, coping styles, foreign policy implementation and other research contents. At the same time, it analyzes and gives some enlightenment.