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TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1991

THESE TOPICS

ARE:

HONG

EMPLOYED PERSONS ACTIVELY PATTERN AND MATERNITY LEAVE

RESIDENTS WORKING KONG

IN CHINA,

LEAVE

OTHER EMPLOYMENT, SICK SEEKING PATTERN OF EMPLOYEES, HOSPITALISATION, PATTERN, ΤΟΥ SAFETY, FAMILY DOCTOR CONSULTATION, CIGARETTE SMOKING LIFE EDUCATION SERVICE AND AWARENESS OF FAMILY SERVICE CENTRES.

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE FACTS CONTAINED IN THE REPORT:

DOWNWARD TREND.

THE PROPORTION OF SMOKERS CONTINUED TO SHOW A

POPULATION AGED 15 AND THE

ABOVE WERE ABOUT 18% (OR 811,100) OF

1986 AND 24% IN SMOKERS IN 1990, COMPARED WITH 20% IN 1988, 22% IN

1984.

SOME 29% OF MALES AND 3% OF FEMALES WERE DAILY SMOKERS IN 1990.

CONSUMED CIGARETTES

BY DAILY SMOKERS 1982 TO 15 IN 1988 AND 13 IN 1990.

A DOCTOR IN

THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DECREASED FROM 16 PER DAY IN

NINETY-TWO PER 1,000 TWO-WEEK PERIOD IN JULY 1990.

PERSONS

HAD CONSULTED

THE CONSULTATION RATE WAS HIGHEST FOR CHILDREN AGED BELOW FIVE, 15-24 AGE GROUP, AT 214 PER 1,000, AND LOWEST FOR YOUNGSTERS IN THE

PRACTITIONER OF AT 57 PER 1,000. THE GREAT MAJORITY LAST CONSULTED A

BONE-SETTER MEDICINE WESTERN HERBALIST.

RATHER THAN AN

ACUPUNCTURIST,

FOR EVERY 1,000 POPULATION, 21 HAD BEEN ADMITTED INTO DURING A SIX-MONTH PERIOD IN 1989.

OR

HOSPITAL

HIGHEST HOSPITALISATION THE ELDERLY AGED 65 AND ABOVE HAD THE

BETWEEN 55 RATE, FOLLOWED BY CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE AND THOSE AGED AND 64.

THE HOSPITALISATION RATE FOR FEMALES WAS

1.4 TIMES THAT FOR

MALES.

THE REPORT CONTAINS MANY MORE FINDINGS AND DETAILED THE SUBJECTS CONCERNED.

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