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:
Vaccine Inoculation
Rate =
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
refer 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
refer 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 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.