Table 1.

Summary of potential influencing factors of China’s DAH

Category	Influencing factors	Data source	Note
1 Recipient need	1a Recipient country GDP per capita	World Development Indicators (http://data.worldbank.org/)	Average of GDP per capita 2006-2014, in current US$
	1b Recipient country all-cause DALYs	IHME Global Burden of Disease (http://ghdx.ealthdata.org/ )	Data from 2010
	1c Recipient country health workforce	World Health Organization	Data from World Health Statistics 2011, physicians number per 10 000 population between 2000-2010
	1d Recipient country hospital beds	World Health Organization	Data from World Health Statistics 2011, hospital beds number per 10 000 population between 2000-2009
	1e Recipient country malaria DALYs	IHME Global Burden of Disease (http://ghdx.healthdata.org/)	Data from 2010
2 Recipient merit	2a Recipient country government effectiveness	Worldwide Governance Indicators (http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/#home)	Data from 2011, a scale ranging from -2.5 to 2.5 with higher values corresponding to better performance
	2b Recipient country human rights violation	Political terror scale (http://www.politicalterrorscale.org/)	Data from 2011, a scale between 1 and 5, with higher numbers indicating more human rights abuses
3 Donor Interest	3a Trade level	UN Comtrade (https://comtrade.un.org/)	The proportion of China’s export to the recipient’s total import in 2011
	3b Voting alignment in the UN	United Nations General Assembly Voting Data (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/12379)	Average across 2006-2014, ranged from –1 (least similar interests) to 1 (most similar interests)
	3c Recipient country natural resource rent	World Development Indicators	Average across 2006-2014, the total natural resource rents (as a % of GDP)

UN – United Nations, GDP – gross domestic product, IHME – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation