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Table 1 Evaluation indicators and weights of health resource allocation and health service utilization

From: Spatial differences, dynamic evolution and influencing factors of the coupling and coordination relationship between health resources allocation and health service utilization in China

System

Subsystems

Variables & direction

Unit

Weight

References

Health resource allocation

Material resources

The number of medical institutions (+)

ten thousand

0.239

[20, 21]

(HRA)

 

The number of beds (+)

ten thousand

0.177

[22, 23]

 

Manpower

The number of health workers (+)

ten thousand people

0.169

 
 

Financial resources

Government financial subsidy (+)

ten thousand CNY

0.415

[24, 25]

Health service utilization

Service quantity

Inpatient visits (+)

ten thousand people

0.252

[26, 27]

(HSU)

 

Outpatient visits (+)

ten thousand people

0.295

 
 

Service efficiency

Bed utilization rate (+)

%

0.046

[28, 29]

  

Average length of stay (-)

Days

0.018

 
  

Average number of visits per day for doctors (+)

Person/day

0.140

 
 

Service cost

Total health expenditure per capita (+)

CNY

0.248

[17, 30]