Table 2

Coverage of essential clinical services* against national guideline of capability development of township healthcare centres in the three counties

DomainNational standard†LQY N (%)FS N (%)GL N (%)P value‡
Internal medicine2620 (76.9)22 (84.6)9 (34.6)≤0.001
Surgery179 (52.9)11 (64.7)2 (16.7)0.005
Ear, nose, throat107 (70.0)6 (60.0)1 (10.0)0.016
Gynaecology and obstetrics76 (85.7)4 (57.1)1 (14.3)0.027
Stomatology64 (66.7)4 (66.7)3 (50.0)0.792
Total6646 (70.0)47 (71.2)16 (24.4)≤0.001
  • *Number of diseases diagnosed within each disease domain.

  • †Number of essential services required by the national guideline of capability building of healthcare centres.

  • ‡χ2 test to compare among counties.

  • FS, Fushun county; GL, Ganluo county; LQY, Longquanyi district.