Persons Engaged in Health Care Institutions by Type of Occupation
(10 000 persons)
Type of Personnel	1985	1990	1995	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total	431.3	490.6	537.3	553.6	557.0	559.1	558.4
Medical Technical Personnel	341.1	389.8	425.7	442.4	445.9	449.1	450.8
Other Technical Personnel	4.6	8.6	12.1	14.5	15.0
Managerial Personnel	35.9	39.7	45.0	43.6	43.4
Logistics Workers	49.7	52.6	54.5	53.1	52.6
Medical Technical Personnel	341.1	389.8	425.7	442.4	445.9
Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine	12.0	24.0	26.0	25.6	25.7	33.7	33.4
Doctors of Western Medicine	60.2	105.8	118.6	124.7	129.3	133.0	136.4
Senior Doctors Who Integrate Traditional
Chinese Therapeutics with Western	0.2	0.5	0.8	1.1	1.1
Therapeutics in Practice
Senior Nurses	6.8	43.2	63.4	74.5	78.7	126.7	128.7
Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	4.7	16.4	21.2	23.4	24.0
Laboratory Technicians	2.4	8.1	11.0	12.4	12.8
Other Technicians	2.1	6.8	9.2	10.7	10.6
Paramedics of Chinese Medicine	15.0	9.1	7.5	7.0	6.8
Paramedics of Western Medicine	47.3	33.1	36.5	40.1	40.3	39.5	38.7
Junior Nurses	56.9	54.3	49.2	47.4	45.8
Midwives	7.6	5.8	4.9	4.9	4.4
Junior Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	14.5	16.2	13.5	13.1	12.5
Junior Laboratory Technicians	7.5	7.0	5.9	5.9	5.6
Other Junior Technicians	5.8	6.0	5.4	5.2	4.8
Other Doctors of Chinese Medicine	6.6	3.8	2.3	1.4	1.2
Assistant Nurses	25.9	12.7	11.8	9.5	8.5
Assistant Pharmacists of Chinese Medicine	17.3	8.0	7.1	5.9	5.3
Assistant Laboratory Technicians	4.7	2.0	2.0	1.8	1.7
Other Junior Medical Technical Personnel
	43.6	27.1	29.1	27.8	26.6
Number of Medical Technical Personnel per
1,000 Population	3.2	3.4	3.5	3.6	3.5
Doctors	1.3	1.5	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.68	1.69