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| Source: China Statistical Yearbook,
2003, Table 21-36, p. 806. Note 1: Before 1978 statistical data are questionable - particularly during the period of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Note 2: Doctors include traditional healers, university-trained doctors and physicians with a university certification. |
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| According to these official statistics, the health infrastructure of counties and cities (which can be taken as approximation for rural and urban areas) developed quite differently: While the number of hospital beds in cities (urban areas) increased - particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, it decreased in the counties (rural areas). | |||||||
| This concentration of medical facilities in cities can be also observed among the medical personnel: Since the early 1980s the number of doctors and university-certified physicians in cities exceeded the number of doctors and physicians in the counties. The number of medical doctors and physicians in the counties stagnated or even declined since 1988. | |||||||
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