Explanatory
Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Medical and
Health Care Institutions refer
to the units which have been qualified the Certification of Health Care
Institution, certification of family planning technical service by the
administration of public health, or qualified the Certification of Corporate
Unit by the civil
Hospitals include
general hospitals, hospitals specialized in traditional Chinese medicine,
hospitals of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, ethnic
hospitals, specialized hospitals and nursing hospitals, excluding specialized
disease prevention and treatment institutes, maternal and child health care
hospitals and convalescent hospitals.
Health Care Institutions at
Grass-root Level include community health service centers,
community health service stations, urban health centers,
township health centers, village clinics, outpatient
departments and clinics (health centers).
Specialized
Public Health Institutions include centers for
disease control and prevention, specialized disease prevention and treatment
institutions, women and children care agencies(including women and children
health care family planning service center), health
education institutions, first aid centers, blood
gathering and supplying institutions, health supervision and inspection
agencies, and family planning technical service centers
that obtained the Certification of Health Care Institution or certification of
family planning technical service centers.
Other Medical
and Health Care Institutions include sanatoriums, clinical laboratory centers, medicinal scientific research institutions, on-job
training institutions, medical examination centers,
rural water improvement centers, talent exchange centers, and statistical information centers,
etc.
Health Care Employees refer to all employees
engaged in the health care institutions, such as hospitals, health care
institutions at grass-root level, specialized public health institutions, and
other medical and health care institutions, including medical technical
personnel, village doctors and assistants, other technical personnel,
managerial and service staff. The data is based on the year end payroll,
including personnel hired (including contract labor)
and re-employed after retirement by the institution for over half a year and
excluding temporary workers, retired personnel, resigned personnel, personnel
who have left the institution but kept the contract relation and personnel who
are re-employed after retirement or temporarily employed for less than half a
year.
Medical
Technical Personnel refer to the professional st
Licensed Doctors refer to the medical workers
who have obtained the licenses of qualified doctors and are employed in medical
treatment, disease prevention or healthcare institutions, excluding the
licensed doctors engaged in management job. The licensed doctors are divided
into 4 categories: clinician, Chinese medicine physicians, dentist
and public health physicians.
Licensed
Assistant Doctors refer to the medical workers
who have obtained the licenses of qualified assistant doctors and are employed
in medical treatment, disease prevention or healthcare institutions, excluding
the licensed assistant doctors engaged in management job. The classification of
licensed assistant doctors is clinician, Chinese medicine, dentist and public
health.
Number of
Licensed (Assistant) Doctors per 10000 Population The formula is:
Number
of Licensed Doctors per 10000 Population = (Number of Licensed Doctors + Number
of Licensed Assistant Doctors) / Population *10000
The
population is the figure of usual population at year-end.
Number of
Medical Technical Personnel per 10000 Population The formula is:
Number
of Medical Technical Personnel per 10000 Population = Number of Medical
Technical Personnel / Population *10000
The
population is the figure of usual population at year-end.
Number of Beds
of Medical and Health Care Institutions per 10000 Population the formula is:
Number
of Beds of Medical and Health Care Institutions per 10000 Population = Number
of Beds of Medical and Health Care Institutions / Population *10000
The
population is the figure of usual population at year-end.
Incidence Rate
of A and B Type of Notifiable Infectious Diseases refer to the incidence cases notifiable class A and class B infectious diseases per 100 thousand
population in the reference region in the reference year. The formula is:
Incidence
Rate of A and B Type of Notifiable Infectious
Diseases = Incidence Cases Notifiable Class A and
Class B Infectious Diseases / Population *100000
Death Rate of A
and B Type of Notifiable Infectious Diseases refer to the death cases notifiable class A and class B infectious diseases per 100
thousand population in the reference region in the reference year. The formula
is:
Death
Rate of A and B Type of Notifiable Infectious
Diseases= Death Cases Notifiable Class A and Class B
Infectious Diseases / Population *100000
Mortality Rate
of A and B Type Notifiable Infectious Diseases refer to the ratio of death
cases notifiable class A and class B infectious
diseases to the incidence cases in the reference region in the reference year.
The formula is:
Mortality
Rate of A and B Type Notifiable Infectious Diseases =
Death Cases Notifiable Class A and Class B Infectious
Diseases / Incidence Cases *100%
Crude Mortality
Rate refers to the ratio of deaths
to the average population in a year of the region, and usually is presented by
¡ë.
Fatality Rate refers to the ratio of deaths caused by a disease to the population infected by it in
a give period (generally one year), and usually is presented by %.
Maternal
Mortality Rate refers to number of maternal death per 10,000 maternal. Generally refers
to maternal mortality from pregnancy to 42 days
Number of Live
Births
refers to the number of newborn having one of four indicators like heartbeat,
breathing, umbilical cord pulsation and involuntary muscle contraction after
childbirth with gestation of at least 28 weeks or above (if the gestation is
not clear, then refer to the birth weight of 1000 grams and above).
Mortality Rate
of Children under 5
refers to the ratio of
deaths of children under
Newborn
Mortality Rate refers to
the ratio of neonatal deaths in a year to the number of live births, and
usually is presented
by ¡ë. Neonatal deaths refer to the deaths of new-birth
under the age of 28 days (0-27 days).
Number
of Persons Participated in the New Rural Cooperative Medical System refers to the number of persons who have given payment to the new cooperative
medical system by the deadline of fundraising during the year according to the
implementation plan of the new system.
Expenditure
of Funds for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System This Year refers to expenditures on compensation funds for the new rural cooperative
medical system from the fund account of new cooperative medical system this
year.
Persons
Benefited from the Compensation of New Rural Cooperative Medical System refers to the number of
person-times of those who participate in the new system and have been
compensated for medical treatment in the year, including hospitalization,
family account form, out-patient, large special diseases out-patient, normal
childbirth in hospital, medical examination and other compensations
Funds
Raised for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System within the Reference Year refers to the amount of funds
raised within the reference year and put into the special new rural cooperative
medical account, including the matching funds of central and local governments,
paid money by farmers (including relief funds paid by the civil affairs
department and other relevant departments), all the interest income generated
this year of the funds and funds actually raised from other channels this year.
The amount of funding equals to the funds entering into the special new rural
cooperative medical account, excluding the carry-over funds from the previous
year.
Total Expenditure on Public Health refers to the total monetary value of health resources
in a country or a region collected by the whole society for public health based
on source approach. It reflects the attention and affordability of the
government, society and individual for public health and the major
characteristics, justice and rationality of the health fund-raising model under
certain economic circumstance.
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Government Expenditure on Public Health refers to the expenditure of the governments at all
levels on medical and health care
services, medical subsidies, health administration and health
insurance management, and undertakings of family planning etc.
Social Expenditure on Public Health
refers to all inputs of society except the government in public health
including the expenditures on social medical security, commercial health
insurance, private expenditure on
operation of medical and health care, social donation and contribution, and
income from administrative fees 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. It can be
categorized as cash expenditure on health by urban and rural residents and
reflects their affordability of public health.
Average
Expenditure on Health refers to the ratio of total expenditure on health
in a year to the average population.
Ratio of Total
Expenditure on Public Health to GDP refers to the ratio of total
expenditure on public health in a year to GDP, which indicates the financial
support given by a nation to health work and the attention paid on the public
health and the health of residents by the government and society.
Military Supply Stations also called units of management of military supply. They
are the general name of units such as military food supply stations, military
water supply stations, servicemen transfer reception stations, which are
managed by departments of civil affairs entrusted by local governments with
independent accounting, and provide services to army during the war or
peacetime.
Licensed Social Workers refer to those who passed the National Aptitude Test for
Social Workers and obtained the certificates.
Social Service Beds per Thousand Population refer to the total number of social service
beds for the elderly, disabled, mentally-retarded,
mentally-disabled, children, people in need and others divided by year-end
population multiplied by 1000.
The formula is:
The number of beds for the
elderly and disabled includes beds in urban institutions for aged persons,
rural institutions for aged persons, social welfare homes, homes
for disabled veterans, convalescent hospitals for honourable servicemen and
sanatoriums for ex-servicemen. The number of beds for the mentally-retarded and
mentally disabled includes beds in mental hospitals for ex-servicemen and the
related beds in social welfare hospitals. The number of beds for children
includes the beds in social welfare institutions for children and centers for rescuing street children. The number of beds
for relief and other social service beds includes the beds in community pension
service center, community elderly care service center,
salvation station, other adoption institutions, convalescent homes for retired
military officers and military supply stations.
Social Welfare Enterprises refer to those welfare-oriented enterprises employing a
significant number of handicapped people with certain labour
ability (handicapped employees shall exceed 10% of the production staff). They
can be categorized as welfare factories, artificial limb plants and other
welfare enterprises. They can be in the form of state ownership,
collective ownership or other kinds of ownership.
Number of Orphans refers to juveniles under age of 18 that have lost
parents or can't find parents. Orphans are affirmed by department of civil
affairs at county level according to relevant regulations.
Number of Adoption Registration of Family Children refers to abandoned babies that can¡¯t find parents,
children and orphans raised by welfare institutions adopted by Chinese
citizens, or children adopted by foreign nationals, which have registered in
department of civil affairs at county level and above, and gained legal
adoption right. One registration means one case.
Adoption Registration of Chinese Citizens refers to adoption registration of children by
Chinese citizens, which include persons from
Adoption Registration of Foreign Nationals refers to adoption registration of children by
foreign nationals, which include stateless persons, or by couples, at least one
of whom is of foreign national.
Number of Urban Residents Entitled to Minimum Living
Allowances
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.
Number of Rural Residents Entitled to Minimum Living
Allowances 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 reference period.
Households Enjoying Five Guarantees refers to those senior citizens, handicapped
or under-aged who, without labour ability, can not
make a living by themselves and whose statutory providers are unable to support
them or who have no statutory providers at all.
Number of Recipients of Traditional Relief refers to special personnel receiving support
from civil affair department according to national regulations and personnel
who resigned because of the streamlining in the 1960s. Special personnel
include traditional recipients of civil affair support, such as lepers,
insurrectionists and surrenders of former KMT, returned
overseas Chinese, Taiwan compatriots, personnel pardoned and released early
from prisons, personnel removed of the label ¡°rightist¡±, educated youth
suffered from work injuries in the ¡°Down to the Countryside Movement¡± and
personnel who have lost their work capacity due to family planning surgeries.
Number of Service Institutions in Communities refers to the total number of community
service guidance centers, community service centers, community service stations
and other community service institutions at the end of the reporting period.
These institutions offer home keeping and elderly care services for the elderly
and other families, like commodity delivery, health care, cleaning, adult day
care, companion and others. They include comprehensive service institutions,
such as party member activity rooms, employment security network, community
health care stations, entertainment rooms, libraries, ¡°Benevolence
Supermarkets¡±, community donation stations, guard stations, senior activity rooms, cultural activity centers for juveniles and others.
Coverage Rate of Service Institutions in Communities The formula is:
Coverage rate of
service facilities in communities = number of service facilities in
communities/number of village committees + communities¡Á100%
Crude Divorce Rate refers to ratio of divorced couples to the annual average
population in a certain region for the reference year, the formula is:
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Handicapped School-age Children without School Attendance refers to the number of handicapped children of the
school age in accordance with the Law on
Compulsory Education (6 to 14 years old or 7 to 15 years old) who fail to
attend any schools for various reasons as of December 31 of the current year.
New Job Created
for the Urban Disabled refers to the new jobs created for the urban disabled
(non-agricultural household registration) through centralized employment,
self-employment, employment of welfare posts,
supported employment and other forms.
Centralized Employment refers to the employment of the
urban handicapped residents, in a centralized manner, by welfare enterprises,
work and treatment agencies, blind massagists¡¯
centers and other organizations.
Proportionate Employment refers to the employment of the urban handicapped
residents by governmental bodies, organizations, corporate and public
institutions, and various economic organizations in a decentralized manner.
Self-employment
and Other Forms refer to the employment of the urban disabled through
employment of welfare posts, self-employment, supported employment and other
forms other than centralized employment and proportionate employment.
Employment of welfare posts refer to the employment of the disabled for urban
public management and non-profit service posts. Supported employment refers to
the employment of the mentally-retarded, mentally-disabled and heavily
physically-disabled by offering them assistance and helping them to engage in
simple work.