Table 4.
Proportion of premortality treatment and premortality healthcare service among the three regions in rural China
| 1996–2000 | 2001–2005 | 2006–2008 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal (%) | Inland (%) | Remote (%) | Coastal (%) | Inland (%) | Remote (%) | Coastal (%) | Inland (%) | Remote (%) | |
| Premortality treatment | |||||||||
| Inpatient treatment | 71 | 38 | 27 | 78 | 57 | 39 | 83 | 74 | 55 |
| Outpatient treatment | 23 | 47 | 33 | 16 | 29 | 29 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| No healthcare seeking | 6 | 15 | 40 | 6 | 14 | 32 | 5 | 10 | 25 |
| Premortality healthcare service | |||||||||
| Provincial/municipal hospital | 18 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 11 | 11 | 32 | 21 | 24 |
| County/district hospital | 41 | 28 | 19 | 44 | 43 | 26 | 52 | 52 | 32 |
| Township/neighbourhood hospital | 25 | 22 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 12 |
| Village doctor | 13 | 36 | 29 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| No healthcare service seeking | 3 | 9 | 32 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 20 |
Twenty-eight infant deaths were excluded due to the ‘missed information for premortality treatment or premortality healthcare service.