| CD | Clinician density |
| DD | Dentist density |
| GHE | Government health expenditure per capita |
| GP | General practitioner |
| GPD | General practitioner density |
| IV | Inpatient visits per capita |
| LDD | Licensed doctor density |
| LR | Likelihood Ratio |
| MGD | Medical graduate density |
| OLS | Ordinary Least Squares |
| OV | Outpatient visits per capita |
| PHDD | Public health doctor density |
| SDPM | Spatial Durbin Panel Model |
| SEPM | Spatial Error Panel Model |
| SHE | Social health expenditure per capita |
| SLPM | Spatial Lag Panel Model |
| TCM | Traditional Chinese medicine |
| TCMDD | TCM doctor density |
| WHO | World Health Organization |