Table 5.

Costs of the syndromic surveillance system in RMB

Cost categories	Units	Hubei	Jiangxi	Total
Annual costs of staff for data collection In 2012	Health facilities	113,214	153,477	269,967
	Primary schools	21,642	53,510	75,152
	Pharmacies	13,225	20,069	33,294
	Subtotal (%)	151,357 (52.6)	227,056 (28.4)	378,413 (34.8)
Costs of logs for data collection		11,847 (4.1)	15,239 (1.9)	27,086 (2.5)
Costs of staff for daily management of data collection	By researchers	16,432	45,510	61,942
	By CDC staff	6,186	90,000	96,186
	Subtotal (%)	22,618 (7.9)	135,510 (17.0)	158,128 (14.6)
Costs for fieldworks for the management of data collection	By researchers	9,570	31,446	41,016
	By CDC staff	-	-	-
	Subtotal (%)	9,570(3.3)	31,446 (3.9)	41,016 (3.8)
Costs for signal verification	By researchers	0	8,265	8,265
	By CDC staff	132	0	0
	Subtotal (%)	132 (0.0)	8,265 (1.0)	8,397 (0.8)
Annual depreciation and opportunity costs of computers in 2012	Health facilities	21,474	21,658	43,132
	Primary schools	3,274	3,430	6,704
	Pharmacies	2,501	2,834	5,335
	Local CDCs	3,956	1,340	5,296
	Subtotal (%)	31,205 (11.8)	29,262(3.7)	60,467 (5.6)
Annual costs of computer operation in 2012	Health facilities	1,984	3,324	5,308
	Primary schools	2,385	3,445	5,830
	Pharmacies	3,432	3,267	6,699
	Subtotal (%)	7,801 (2.7)	10,036(1.3)	17,837 (1.6)
Annual overhead costs in 2012	Health facilities	21,196	40,081	61,277
	Local CDCs	32,275	301,559	333,834
	Subtotal (%)	53,471 (18.6)	341,640 (42.8)	395,111 (36.4)
Total		288,001 (100.0)	798,454 (100.0)	1,086,455 (100.0)

Footnotes: in 2012, the exchange of Chinese currency was 6.31 RMB for 1 US$ according to the World Bank [25].