Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Community
Health Care Centers (Stations)
refer to the primary units that provide the health care for community
residents, such as disease prevention and control, medical treatment, health
care, rehabilitation, health education, family planning technical services.
Medical
Technical Personnel
refer to all medical staff and workers
employed by medical institutions, including doctors of Chinese and Western
medicine, senior doctors who integrate traditional Chinese therapeutics with
Western therapeutics in practice, senior nurses, pharmacists of Chinese and
Western medicine, laboratory specialists, other specialists, paramedics of
Chinese and Western medicine, nurses, midwives, druggists in Chinese and
Western medicine, laboratory technicians, other technicians, other
practitioners of Chinese medicine, nursing attendants, pharmacological workers
of Chinese and Western medicine, laboratory workers, and other primary medical
personnel, excluding management personnel.
Licensed
(Assistant) Doctors
refer to the medical workers who have
obtained the licenses of qualified doctors (assistant doctors) and are employed
in medical treatment, disease prevention or healthcare institutions, excluding
the licensed doctors (assistant doctors) engaged in management job. The
classification of licensed doctors (assistant doctors) is clinician, Chinese
medicine, dentist and public health.
Total
Expenditure on Health
reflects the total expenditure on medical and health care services of a
country at certain period (usually in a year), estimated using funding source
method. It includes government expenditure, social expenditure and individual
cash expenditure.
Government
Health Appropriation
refers to the expenditure of the governments at all levels on medical and
health care services, health administration and health insurance management and
undertakings of family planning.
Social
Health Expenditure
refers to all inputs of society except the
government in public health including the expenditures on social medical
security, and commercial health insurance,
private expenditure on operation of medical and health care, social
donation and contribution, operating income of administration, etc.
Individual
Cash Expenditure on Health
refers to expenditure in cash on various health services by rural and
urban residents, including self payments of residents within the system of
multi-medical insurance.
Total
Expenditure on Health as Percentage of GDP
refers to the ratio of total expenditure on public health in a year to
GDP, which indicates the capital inputs of the government in the public health
in certain period of time, and the attention of the government and society paid
on the health of residents.
Operating
Expenses for Children Planning
include nine components: namely, expenses for
relief or free family planning operation, expenses for birth control medicine
& tools, expenses for family planning employee, health care expenses for
only son and daughter, expenses for publicity, expenses for service station,
expenses for family planning management of fluid population, expenses for
personnel training, other operation expenses for family planning.
Death
Rate of Infants
refers to the ratio of the number of dead infant below 1 year to the
number of living in one year. The following formula is used:
Death
Rate of Pregnant and Lying-in Women
refers to the ratio of the number of dead pregnant women to the living
number. The death of pregnant woman usually refers from gestation to die after
give birth to child in 42 days, including surgery reason, family planning
operation, pregnancy outside the womb, grape embryo dead women, excluding die
due to accident trouble.
Bcg Vaccine, Poliovirus, Pertussis,
Diphtheria Tetanus, Measles and Hepatitis B Vaccine Inoculation Rate
refers to the ratio of the number of children inoculating vaccine to the
children on the age to inoculate vaccine. The children on the age to inoculate
vaccine include the children avoiding inoculating vaccine and living in some
other places for 3 and more than 3 months, but exclude the children on age
going out for 3 months. The following formula is used:
The molecule: the actual number of children
inoculating vaccine according to the standard of vaccine inoculation.
The denominator: the number of children
according to the process of immunity should inoculate the vaccine in 12 months.
Urban
Residents Receiving Lowest Cost-of-living
refers to the number of those whose average family income is below a
minimum local standard by the end of the reporting period, including both the
employed and unemployed, laid off and retired, and those jobless people without
stable residence or valid Ids.
Rural
Residents Receiving Lowest Cost-of-living
refers to the number of those receiving the minimum living allowances from
the local government or community in the rural areas where this allowances
system is in place as of the end of the reporting period.
Number
of Urban Community Service Organization
refers to the number non-profit welfare set
up by urban communities (community offices and residents�� committees) to serve
the community residents, including, among others, community-based centers that
serve senior citizens, the handicapped or children, recreational centers,
service centers, nursing homes, apartments for the elderly (nursery for the
aged), work and treatment stations for the handicapped, day-care centers for
handicapped children, domestic help agencies and dating services, as well as
social insurance management agencies for the employees. Different types of
community service providers that share the same premise are regarded as one
community service organization. The requirements for a social service
organization of communities include: (1) independent accounting; (2) fixed
employees; (3) provision of services; (4) provision of service premises.