China - Community health workers

Community health workers (per 1,000 people)

The value for Community health workers (per 1,000 people) in China was 0.83 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.08 in 1995 and a minimum value of 0.08 in 2001.

Definition: Community health workers include various types of community health aides, many with country-specific occupational titles such as community health officers, community health-education workers, family health workers, lady health visitors and health extension package workers.

Source: World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD, supplemented by country data.

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1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
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2002
2004
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2010
2012
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
1.00
1.20
Year Value
1990 1.06
1995 1.08
1996 1.06
1997 1.05
1998 1.05
1999 1.04
2000 1.03
2001 0.08
2003 0.67
2004 0.68
2005 0.70
2006 0.73
2007 0.70
2008 0.70
2009 0.83
2010 0.81
2011 0.83

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems