Emergency medicine in China
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Emergency medicine in China |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2248 |
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Book Title | Emergency medicine: an international perspective |
Authors | |
Author | Hou, Xiang-Yu |
Editors | Blaivas, Michael |
Page Range | 73-94 |
Chapter Number | 4 |
Number of Pages | 22 |
Year | 2012 |
Publisher | In-Tech |
HV McKay Charitable Trust | |
Place of Publication | Croatia |
ISBN | 9789535103332 |
9789535169161 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5772/36752 |
Web Address (URL) | https://api.intechopen.com/chapter/pdf-download/31943.pdf |
Abstract | With the world’s largest population of 1.3 billion, China is a rapidly developing country. In line with this development, China’s enormous health system is experiencing an unprecedented series of reforms. According to a recent official government report, China has 300, 000 health organizations, which include 60, 000 hospitals and a total number of 3.07 million beds (China NBoSoP 2006). To provide health services for the national population, as well as the substantial number of visitors, China has 1.93 million doctors and 1.34 million registered nurses (China NBoSoP 2006). From 1984 to 2004, the number of inpatients grew from about 25 to 50 million, with outpatient figures increasing from 1.1 to 1.3 billion (China MoH 2006). The scale of the health system is likely bigger than in any other countries in the world, but the quality of medical services is still among the levels of developing countries. In 2005, approximately 3.8% of inpatients (about 1.5 million)(China NBoSoP 2006) were admitted because of injury and poisoning, which created significant load for the acute health system. These increased figures are at least partly because of the development of the health system and technological health-care advances but, even with such advances, this rapid change in emergency health-care demand has created a very significant burden on existing systems... |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 320207. Emergency medicine |
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Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
Journal Title | Emergency Medicine - An International Perspective |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q66qy/emergency-medicine-in-china
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