On August 22nd, the National Health and Family Planning Commission recently released a statistical bulletin. 20 16 the health level of China residents has been continuously improved, and the main health indicators of residents are generally better than the average level of middle-and high-income countries.
In 20 16, the total number of medical and health institutions in China reached 7.93 billion. The average number of visits by residents increased from 5.6 in 20 15 years to 5.8 in 20 16 years, and the annual hospitalization rate increased from 20 15.3% to 6.5% in 20 16 years. In 20 16, the per capita financing of medical insurance for urban and rural residents reached 620.4 yuan, an increase of 89.7 yuan over the previous year.
In 20 16 years, the average outpatient expenses in the whole hospital were 245.5 yuan, which was 5.0% higher than that in 20 15 years, and the increase rate was 1.3 percentage points lower than that in the previous year. The per capita hospitalization expense was 8604.7 yuan, an increase of 4. 1% over the previous year, and the growth rate decreased by 2. 1% over the previous year. Among them, the average outpatient drug expenses in hospitals accounted for 45.5%, which was 65,438 0.7 percentage points lower than the previous year. The per capita hospitalization expenses of hospitals were 2,977.5 yuan, accounting for 34.6%, which was 2.2 percentage points lower than the previous year, showing negative growth for the first time in five years. In 20 16, the total national health expenditure is expected to reach 4,634.49 billion yuan, of which personal health expenditure is1337.9 billion yuan, accounting for 29.3% in 20 16 and 28.8% in 2016.
The statistical results show that the effect of the universal two-child policy is gradually being released. In 20 16, the proportion of people with two children or more exceeded 45%, reaching the highest level since 2000. The implementation of the universal two-child policy is in line with the prediction, the birth population has increased steadily, and the implementation of the policy has met the fertility aspirations of the vast majority of the people.
I hope the country will introduce more welfare policies.