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 affairs, administration for
industry and commerce, commission office for public sector reform, and engaging
in medical care, disease prevention and control, health supervision and
inspection, medicine research and on-job training, etc., including: hospitals,
health care institutions at grass-root level, specialized public health
institutions, and other medical and health care institutions.
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 staff engaged
in health care, including licensed doctors, licensed assistant doctors,
registered nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, imaging staff, health
care supervisors and intern doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and technical
personnel, excluding the medical technical personnel engaged in managerial job
(e.g. president, vice president and secretary of the party committee etc).
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 given 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 after parturition due to pregnancy
or any treatment of pregnancy, however, accidental deaths are not included.
According to internationally accepted calculation method, the live births are
used to represent the total number of maternal.
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,
community pension institutions and facilities and mutual aid pension facilities
and other community service institutions at the end of the reporting period.
These institutions offer home keeping and elderly care services for the
elderly, handicapped people, children and their families, like commodity
delivery, health care, cleaning, adult day care, companion 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..