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EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGY,
CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY OF SOME
STATISTICAL INDICATORS ON HEALTH, CULTURE,

SPORTS, LIVING STANDARDS, SOCIAL SAFETY, JUSTICE,
NATURAL DISASTER DAMAGE AND ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH

Patient bed is used for patients at the healthcare establishments
excluding beds for persons on duty, and beds in the examining and waiting
rooms of the healthcare establishment, beds in health station in
wards/communes/towns, institutions

Doctors include: doctors, masters, doctorates, professors, associate
professors with professional qualifications in medicine and holding a
doctor's degree or higher, currently working in the health sector.

Health staff includes medical and pharmaceutical staffs who are
currently working in health establishments (including public and private
health) and obtained health qualifications for at least three-month training,
including doctors, physicians, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, druggists and
technicians.

Rate of under-5-year children’s malnutrition by level of malnutrition

 Children of weight-for-age malnutrition: Under-5-year children have
weight-for-age less than minus 2 standard deviation (-2SD) of the median
weight of World Health Organization (WHO) reference population.
Number of under-5-year children
Rate of under-5-year of weight-for-age malnutrition

children of weight-for- = × 100
age malnutrition (%) Number of weighted under-5-
year children

 Children of height-for-age malnutrition: Under-5-year children have
height-for-age less than minus 2 standard deviation (-2SD) of the median
height of WHO reference population.

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