a)
Number of health institutions exclude the private clinics before 1995.
b)
"Individual practitioners" that were not included in the number of
health institutions were reclassified as "private clinics" and were
included in thenumber of clinics since
1997, Number of clinics include clinics, health care stations, and
infirmary.
c)
Number of hospitals before 2002 includes specialized prevention and treatment
institutions, and CDC (epidemic prevention station) include healthprevention and care
centers.
d)
Number of health institutions since 2002 are the number of registeration and
exclude higher and middle medical colleges, drug test institutions andfamily planning guidance
station of non-health dapartment.