21-18 Persons Engaged in Health Care Institutions by Type of Occupation
Unit: 10 000 persons
Type of Personnel	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997
Total	431.3	490.6	537.3	431.2	551.6
Medical Technical Personnel	341.1	389.8	425.7	431.2	439.8
Other Technical Personnel	4.6	8.6	12.1	12.5	13.3
Managerial Personnel	35.9	39.7	45.0	44.5	44.8
Logistics Workers	49.7	52.6	54.5	53.7	53.7
Medical Technical Personnel	341.1	389.8	425.7	431.2	439.8
Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine	12.0	24.0	26.0	25.7	25.8
Doctors of Western Medicine	60.2	105.8	118.6	120.7	123.6
Senior Doctors Who Integrate Traditional Chinese Therapeutics with Western	0.2	0.5	0.8	1.1	1.1
Therapeutics in Practice Senior Nurses	6.8	43.2	63.4	67.4	71.3
Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	1.4	6.0	7.9	8.4	8.6
Pharmacists of Western Medicine	3.3	10.4	13.3	14.1	14.6
Laboratory Technicians	2.4	8.1	11.0	11.4	12.0
Other Technicians	2.1	6.8	9.2	10.0	10.4
Paramedics of Chinese Medicine	15.0	9.1	7.5	7.2	7.2
Paramedics of Western Medicine	47.3	33.1	36.5	37.5	39.2
Junior Nurses	56.9	54.3	49.2	48.9	48.5
Midwives	7.6	5.8	4.9	4.9	4.9
Junior Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	5.5	7.2	5.7	5.5	5.4
Junior Pharmacists of Western Medicine	9.0	9.0	7.8	7.9	8.0
Junior Laboratory Technicians	7.5	7.0	5.9	5.9	5.9
Other Junior Technicians	5.8	6.0	5.4	5.2	5.8
Other Doctors of Chinese Medicine	6.6	3.8	2.3	1.8	1.6
Assistant Nurses	25.9	12.7	11.8	10.9	10.3
Assistant Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	8.2	3.8	3.1	2.7	2.6
Assistant Pharmacists of Western Medicine	9.1	4.2	4.0	3.7	3.6
Assistant Laboratory Technicians	4.7	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.9
Other Junior Medical Technical Personnel	43.6	27.1	29.1	28.3	28.0
Number of Medical Technical Personnel per 1,000 Population	3.22	3.41	3.5	3.6	3.6
# Doctors	1.33	1.54	1.58	1.6	1.6