Health Facts of Hong Kong 2017Edition

1 Registered Healthcare Professionals (End 2016) Inpatient Discharges and Deaths in All Hospitals Classified Healthcare by Disease, 2015. Professionals Type of Professional Total to Population* Number of Health Facts of hong kong Doctors 14 013 1 : 526 Disease Classification Attendances (%). Chinese medicine practitioners Diseases of the genitourinary system 260 957 ( ). 2017 Edition Registered Chinese medicine practitioners 7 262 1 : 1 016. Neoplasms 253 985 ( ). Chinese medicine practitioners with 47 . limited registration Diseases of the digestive system 205 325 ( ). Listed Chinese medicine practitioners 2 647 1 : 2 786 Diseases of the respiratory system 169 407 ( ).

2 Dentists 2 441 1 : 3 021. Diseases of the circulatory system 156 770 ( ). Dental hygienists 424 1 : 17 394. Nurses 52 389 1 : 141. Factors influencing Health status and 130 809 ( ). Midwives 4 540 1 : 1 624 contact with Health services Population and Vital Statistics for 2016 Pharmacists 2 659 1 : 2 774. Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium 114 624 ( ). Medical laboratory technologists 3 443 1 : 2 142. Land Area (Sq. km) 1 Occupational therapists 1 911 1 : 3 859 Injury, poisoning and certain other 109 341 ( ). Mid-year Population ('000) 7 consequences of external causes Physiotherapists 2 956 1 : 2 495. Population Density (Persons per sq.)

3 Km) 6 777 Optometrists 2 180 1 : 3 383 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system 83 633 ( ). Radiographers 2 209 1 : 3 339 and connective tissue Mid-year Population by Age Group ('000). Chiropractors 209 1 : 35 287 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases 61 188 ( ). Below 15 years 15 - 64 years 5 Health Facilities (End 2016) Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic 47 589 ( ). diseases 65 years and above 1 Number of Public Hospitals and Institutions under Hospital 42. Authority Diseases of the eye and adnexa 47 580 ( ). Annual Population Growth Rate (%) Number of Private Hospitals 11. Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous 39 113 ( ). Crude Birth Rate Number of Nursing Homes 63 tissue (Registered births per 1 000 mid-year population).

4 Number of Hospitals under Correctional Institutions 21 Mental and behavioural disorders 37 634 ( ). Crude Death Rate Number of Hospital Beds in Hospitals in Hospital Authority 28 126. (Registered deaths per 1 000 mid-year population) Certain conditions originating in the 36 629 ( ). Number of Hospital Beds in Private Hospitals 4 226 perinatal period Late Foetal Mortality Rate (per 1 000 total births) Number of Hospital Beds in Nursing Homes 5 858. Diseases of the nervous system 34 989 ( ). Perinatal Mortality Rate* (per 1 000 total births) Number of Hospital Beds in Correctional Institutions 880. Neonatal Mortality Rate* (per 1 000 registered live births) Diseases of the blood and blood-forming 31 775 ( ).

5 Accident and Emergency and Outpatient Attendances in organs and certain disorders involving Infant Mortality Rate* (per 1 000 registered live births) the immune mechanism 2016*. Maternal Mortality Ratio* (per 100 000 registered live births) Department of Health Congenital malformations, deformations 11 755 ( ). Life Expectancy at Birth* (Years) and chromosomal abnormalities General outpatient service attendances 518 468. Male Other outpatient service attendances 5 748 121 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process 9 705 ( ). Hospital Authority Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical Female 203 484 ( ). Accident and emergency attendances 2 259 583 and laboratory findings, not elsewhere Percentage Distribution of Live births by Birth Weight classified General outpatient attendances 6 062 409.

6 Under kg Unknown diagnosis (refers to uncoded 10 529 ( ). Specialist outpatient (clinical) attendances 7 476 202. principal diagnosis). kg to less than kg Allied Health (outpatient) attendances 2 641 064. kg and above Family medicine specialist clinic attendances 297 198 Total 2 056 821 ( ). Notifications and Deaths of Notifiable Infectious Diseases in Scarlet fever 1 466 0 as % of total expenditure on Health 2016@ Severe Acute Respiratory 0 0 as % of total public expenditure Notification Death Syndrome per capita public expenditure on Health (HK$) 8,431. Disease Number Rate# Number Rate# Shiga toxin-producing 6 0 Private expenditure on Health Escherichia coli infection Acute poliomyelitis 0 0 amount (HK$ million) 63,230.

7 Smallpox 0 0 Amoebic dysentery 4 0 as % of total expenditure on Health Streptococcus suis infection 5 0 Anthrax 0 0 per capita private expenditure on Health (HK$) 8,797. Tetanus 0 0 Bacillary dysentery 39 0 Per capita GDP (HK$) 301,148. Tuberculosis 4 412 159 Botulism 13 0 Typhoid fever 14 0 Chickenpox 8 879 1 Official Estimates on Immunisation Coverage of Infants born Typhus and other rickettsial 53 1 Chikungunya fever 8 0 diseases in 2015. Cholera 3 0 Viral haemorrhagic fever 0 0 Type of Vaccine Official Estimates Community-associated 1 148 1 Viral hepatitis 272 3 methicillin-resistant Vaccine (at birth) Above 95%. Staphylococcus aureus West Nile Virus Infection 0 0 Above 95%.

8 Combined Diphtheria, Pertussis & Tetanus Vaccine infection Whooping cough 31 0 (third dose). Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 9 11 Yellow fever 0 0 Polio Vaccine (third dose) Above 95%. Dengue fever 124 0 Zika Virus Infection 2 0 Hepatitis B Vaccine (third dose) Above 95%. Diphtheria 0 0 Pneumococcal Vaccine (third dose) Above 95%. Enterovirus 71 infection 38 0 Number of Registered Deaths by Ten Leading Causes of Food poisoning (Outbreaks) 213 0 Death in 2016* (Ranking is based on number of registered Combined Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (first Above 95%. deaths in 2015) dose). Haemophilus influenzae 1 1 Number of type b infection (invasive).

9 Registered Environmental Health for 2016. Hantavirus infection 0 0 Rank Disease Group Deaths Percentage of population with sustainable access to an improved 100. Invasive pneumococcal 190 28 1 Malignant neoplasms 14 181 water source disease 2 Pneumonia 8 217 Percentage of population with access to improved sanitation facility 99. Japanese encephalitis 2 0 3 Diseases of heart 6 174. Legionnaires' disease 75 5 Prevalence of Selected Lifestyle Practices and Health Status 4 Cerebrovascular diseases 3 211 Among Persons Aged between 18 and 64, April 2016. Leprosy 3 0 Leptospirosis 7 0 5 External causes of morbidity and mortality 1 372 Percentage Listeriosis 17 3 6 Chronic lower respiratory diseases 1 642 Lifestyle Practices and Both Malaria 24 0 7 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 1 699 Health Status Male Female Sexes Measles 9 0 8 Dementia 1 371 Daily alcohol drinking Inadequate aerobic physical activity Meningococcal infection 6 1 9 Septicaemia 963.

10 (by WHO's recommendations). (invasive) 10 Diabetes mellitus 491 Inadequate daily fruit Middle East Respiratory 0 0 and vegetable intake All other causes 7 341. Syndrome (less than 5 servings per day). All causes 46 662. Mumps 111 0 Overweight and obesity (BMI> ) Novel influenza A infection 5 1 Health Expenditure ( hong kong 's Domestic Health Accounts Prevalence of current smokers (aged 15 and over), 2015 . Paratyphoid fever 15 0 2013/14)^. Plague 0 0 Percentage Total expenditure on Health Psittacosis 8 0 Both amount (HK$ million) 123,828 Current Smoker Male Female Sexes Q fever 2 0 as % of GDP Daily cigarette smokers Rabies 0 0 per capita total expenditure on Health (HK$) 17,228 Notes : * Provisional figure(s).