Study on division of China’s health region / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

Objective:Development of health resources is extremely uneven in China. It is need to consider the situation of each region for China 's health regional planning, so area classification should be in progress. Methods Considering the economic, social, population and health factors, the study conducted principal component analysis and factor analysis by statistical yearbook data to calculate the composite score for each region. Then cluster analysis was conducted. Results Principal components and factor analysis were both divided the country in to six categories. Conclusions:The study divided the country into six regions, the first class areaShanghai, Beijing;the second class areaTianjin; the third class area Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong; the fifth class area Guangxi, Ningxia, Xin-jiang, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai;the sixth class areaTibet. The rest is the forth class area.