各级医疗卫生组织机构
省、自治区、直辖市 人 民
卫生部
政府
卫生厅(局)
行政公署
卫生局
县(市、区)
人民政府
卫生局(科)
乡人民政府(公社)
(城市街道办事处)
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(城市居委会)
A Brief Introduction on'China's
Medical and Health Services
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民卫生出版社、健康报社
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医院、门诊部、专科医院、卫生防 按站、妇幼保健所(站)、安料防治
所、药品检验所
农村(城市街道)卫生
村卫生所或医疗站、城市居委会拼 防站
China is situated in the eatern part of Asia. It covers an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and is administratively divided into 23 provinces.5 autono
mous regions and 3 municipalities directly under the central government. Accord. ing to the statistics in 1987, it has 56 nationalities with a total population of 1.08 billion, of which 93.3 percent belong to the Han nationality.
Health Institutions and Personnel
In 1949. there were only 3670 health institutions, 80000 hospital beds and 541000 professional health workers including 505000 technical personnel. Since the founding of new China in 1949, considerable progress has been made in the development of China's health services. Up to 1989, medical and health institutions have grown to some 207000 in number, an increase of over 56 times, of which there are more than 60000 hospitals, 132000 outpatient departments and clinics. 3591 health and epidemic prevention stations and 2796 MICH centers. A nationwide medical and health network from the central down to the grassroots levels has caken shape. Hospital beds have been increased by 32.1 times with a total of 2.568 million, averaging 2.3 per 1000 population. Professional health workers of all categories have developed to 4.781 million, an increase of 8.8 times, of which technical personnel 3,809 millon, an increase of 7.1 times. Among the number of technical personnel, medical doctors(including assistant medical doctors of both
western and traditional Chinese medicine) have gone up to 1.718 million, an increase of 4.7 times averaging 1.56 per 1000 population.
In developing China's health services, a multitude of forms and approaches have been employed, while developing the state-run health institutions. efforts are made to promote the growth of the collective-run health institutions and to give permission and support to private practice. There are now 164000 private practitioners. Among the existing medical and health institutions in the urban and rural areas, the majority of big and medium-sized ones at and above county level are under the state ownership and the majority of those at grassroots levels under
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