Table 1 Descriptive statistics of key variables at community-level in Sichuan Province, China, from 2017 to 2019.

From: Exploring the effect of the primary care health workers number on infectious diarrhea morbidity and where the health resources should go

Variables

2017

2018

2019

Mean ± SD

Maximum

Minimum

Mean ± SD

Maximum

Minimum

Mean ± SD

Maximum

Minimum

Morbidity (1/10,000)

3.5 ± 5.3

53.0

0

3.8 ± 5.9

71.9

0

4.4 ± 6.8

149.1

0

Number of primary care health workers

23.9 ± 28.5

415.0

1.0

24.9 ± 29.4

460.0

1.0

25.9 ± 30.5

481.0

1.0

Subsidy per staff

103.4 ± 69.8

1673.8

0

61.7 ± 105.8

976.6

0

103.7 ± 57.9

856.2

0

Population

153.3 ± 161.8

2675.0

6.1

153.7 ± 162.7

2689.2

6.0

154.1 ± 163.7

2724.8

6.1

  1. The unit of subsidy per staff is thousand Yuan; the unit of population is a hundred person.