Table 1.
Prescription status by age groups and years
| Age group (years) | All children | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 2 | 2–5 | 6–11 | 12–17 | |||||||
| 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| Number of pediatric outpatients | 55,936 | 36,841 | 126,443 | 76,646 | 116,697 | 88,510 | 83,498 | 67,581 | 382,574 | 269,578 |
| Boys (%) | 59.41% | 57.72% | 58.82% | 60.28% | 59.93% | 59.46% | 59.71% | 56.03% | 59.44% | 58.59% |
| Number of pediatric prescriptions | 33,088 | 15,071 | 72,542 | 36,566 | 60,355 | 35,533 | 38,621 | 30,224 | 204,606 | 117,394 |
| Proportion of children received medications | 59.15% | 40.91% | 57.37% | 47.71% | 51.72% | 40.15% | 46.25% | 44.72% | 53.48% | 43.55% |
| Average number of medicines prescribed for each child | 2.47 | 2.12 | 2.57 | 2.27 | 2.32 | 1.98 | 2.63 | 2.62 | 2.49 | 2.25 |
| Average spending on drugs of one child in each visit (dollars) | 17.27 | 16.07 | 18.98 | 20.46 | 31.79 | 43.40 | 48.43 | 52.52 | 28.04 | 35.09 |
| Number of children covered by basic medical insurance | 155 | 37 | 803 | 352 | 653 | 547 | 587 | 494 | 2198 | 1430 |
| Proportion of children received injected medications | 34.38% | 23.53% | 34.07% | 27.24% | 26.66% | 21.58% | 21.04% | 18.49% | 29.48% | 22.80% |
| Proportion of injections in all the medicines used | 54.18% | 41.37% | 54.70% | 42.64% | 44.71% | 31.11% | 36.82% | 34.02% | 48.31% | 36.84% |