Table 4.
Differences in RPHC among Western, Central and Eastern China based on ANOVA and LSD.
| RPHC | ANOVA | LSD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p | ||||
| F | p | East (n = 79) & West (n = 171) | Central (n = 150) & West (n = 171) | |
| Construction of rural primary health care service system | ||||
| The coverage rate of rural medical institutions | 0.491 | 0.617 | 0.554 | 0.643 |
| The proportion of practicing physicians and practicing assistant physicians providing clinical services in the township hospitals | 5.372 | 0.011 * | 0.030 ** | 0.056 |
| The proportion of practicing physicians and practicing assistant physicians providing clinical services in the clinics | 1.661 | 0.208 | 0.141 | 0.776 |
| Use of rural primary health care services | ||||
| The proportion of township hospitals providing traditional Chinese medicine services | 5.180 | 0.012 * | 0.005 ** | 0.043 ** |
| The proportion of village clinics providing traditional Chinese medicine services | 2.002 | 0.154 | 0.057 | 0.531 |
| The rate of major chronic disease management | ||||
| Hypertension system management rate | 0.341 | 0.714 | 0.416 | 0.734 |
| Diabetes system management rate | 0.170 | 0.845 | 0.566 | 0.838 |
| The rate of planned immunization | ||||
| the coverage rate of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) | 1.362 | 0.273 | 0.131 | 0.889 |
| the coverage rate of DPT | 5.003 | 0.014 * | 0.005 ** | 0.572 |
| the coverage rate of Measles vaccine | 6.015 | 0.007 * | 0.002 ** | 0.299 |
| the coverage rate of Polio vaccine | 4.702 | 0.170 | 0.005 ** | 0.360 |
| the coverage rate of Hepatitis B vaccine | 8.298 | 0.001 * | 0.000 ** | 0.334 |
| The qualification rate of food hygiene | 1.929 | 0.164 | 0.093 | 0.132 |
| The qualification rate of public place health | 0.635 | 0.537 | 0.319 | 0.983 |
| The qualification rate of occupational health | 1.599 | 0.220 | 0.111 | 0.198 |
| The maternal hospital delivery rate | 20.168 | 0.000 * | 0.000 ** | 0.002 ** |
| The care coverage rate of children under the age of 7 | 6.317 | 0.005 * | 0.002 ** | 0.547 |
| The access rate to tap water | 13.253 | 0.000 * | 0.000 ** | 0.310 |
| The access rate to sanitary latrines | 10.296 | 0.000 * | 0.000 ** | 0.091 |
| The basic health knowledge awareness rate | 1.860 | 0.174 | 0.136 | 0.100 |
| Results of the implementation of rural primary health care | ||||
| The decrease in the infant mortality rate | 4.740 | 0.017 * | 0.006 ** | 0.551 |
| The decrease in the maternal mortality rate | 6.916 | 0.004 * | 0.001 ** | 0.051 |
| The decreased proportion of children under age 5 mortality rate | 4.026 | 0.029 * | 0.009 ** | 0.184 |
Notes: * Statistically significant among three groups; ** Statistically significant between two groups.