Health care in China is overseen by the Ministry of Health. Many large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have western style facilities with international professionals that speak many languages. The main modern health concern in China is a HIV epidemic. There has also been avian flu outbreaks and experts expect a pandemic if the virus mutates to become transmissible form human to human.
100 million of the Chinese population suffer from various mental illnesses but China only has 17,000 certified psychologist. This is ten times less psychologists per capita then any other developed country. The first mental institution was introduced shortly before 1949. Between 1949 and 1963 diagnosis of mental illnesses was controlled by politics. However, shortly after that period the Chinese adopted western models of treatment and rehabilitation.
Life Expectancy |
72.88 |
Infant Mortality Rate |
22.12 |
Physicians per 1000 people |
1.5 |
Nurses over 1000 people |
- |
Expenditure on health per capita USD |
224 |
Healthcare cost as a % of GDP |
5.5 |
% of government revenue spent on health |
- |
% of health costs paid by the government |
- |
[1] - CIA World factbook
[2] - World Health Organisation
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