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Table 1 National health technicians, health care facility beds, and health cost inputs, 2017–2021

From: Efficiency and equity of bed utilization in China’s health institutions: based on the rank-sum ratio method

Year

Health technicians per 1,000 population (persons)

Number of beds in

health institutions per 1,000 population (beds)

Per capita total health cost (hundred yuan)

Average total health cost per bed (ten thousand yuan) % increase over the previous year

 

Increase over the previous year

 

Increase over the previous year

 

Increase over the previous year

 

Increase over the previous year

2017

6.47

5.72

5.72

6.52

37.57

12.86

66.24

5.92

2018

6.83

5.56

6.03

5.42

42.07

11.98

70.35

6.20

2019

7.26

6.30

6.30

4.48

46.69

10.98

74.76

6.27

2020

7.57

4.27

6.46

2.54

51.11

9.47

79.31

6.08

2021

7.97

5.28

6.70

3.72

54.40

6.44

81.32

2.53

Average % increase per year

 

5.43

 

4.53

 

10.34

 

5.40