Table 2.
Numbers of institutions and their practicing dentists in different levels of hospitals, dentists in clinics, overall dentists in different regions of Taiwan in October 2019.
| Region of Taiwan | Medical center |
Regional hospital |
District hospital |
Total hospitals |
Clinic dentists | Overall dentists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | |||
| Northern | 12 | 681 | 30 | 382 | 29 | 99 | 67 | 1162 | 6667 | 7829 |
| Central | 6 | 196 | 19 | 128 | 19 | 62 | 44 | 386 | 2646 | 3032 |
| Southern | 5 | 314 | 22 | 214 | 20 | 57 | 47 | 585 | 2959 | 3544 |
| Eastern | 1 | 22 | 6 | 46 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 77 | 318 | 395 |
| Offshore islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 25 |
| Total | 24 | 1213 | 77 | 770 | 79 | 230 | 180 | 2213 | 12,612 | 14,825 |
| Maximum gap | 9 | 25 | 9 | 79.5 | 11 | 43 | 26 | 728 | 858.67 | 550.67 |
| Coefficient of variation | 1.94 | 2.24 | 0.88 | 1.21 | 0.78 | 1.12 | 0.90 | 1.64 | 1.37 | 1.38 |
| Gini coefficient | – | 0.57 | – | 0.22 | – | 0.26 | – | 0.37 | 0.33 | 0.31 |